Holy Scripture
Wisdom of Solomon 15:3
A church father on this verse
“On common truth. True Father, true Son, true Holy Spirit. Of the Father in Solomon: For our God, are kind and true: For to know you is complete righteousness (Wis. 15:1, 3). Of the Son in John: That we may be in his true Son Jesus Christ; this is the true God, and eternal life (1 Jn. 5:20). Of the Holy Spirit in the G…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
3For to know thee is perfect righteousness: Yea, to know thy power is the root of immortality.
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1But thou, our God, art gracious and true, Long-suffering, and in mercy ordering all things.
2For if we sin, we are thine, knowing thy power: But we will not sin, knowing that we are counted thine.
— Wisdom of Solomon 15:3 —
4For neither did the mischievous invention of men deceive us, Nor an image spotted with diverse colors, The painter’s fruitless labor;
5The sight whereof enticeth fools to lust after it, And so they desire the form of a dead image, that hath no breath.