DB1 | The true god gives immortality. Wis.15.1-6 | KNSB Contents | notes| 15 | katapi NEW STUDY BIBLE | Passage | Old Testament in Greek (Septuagint) |
| 15 1 | But you, our God, are kind and true, patient, and ruling all things in mercy. | The true god gives immortality. Wis.15.1-6 | Σὺ δέ, ὁ θεὸς ἡμῶν, χρηστὸς καὶ ἀληθής, μακρόθυμος καὶ ἐλέει διοικῶν τὰ πάντα. |
| 2 | For even if we sin we are yours, knowing your power; but we will not sin, because we know that we are accounted yours. | καὶ γὰρ ἐὰν ἁμάρτωμεν, σοί ἐσμεν, εἰδότες σου τὸ κράτος· οὐχ ἁμαρτησόμεθα δέ, εἰδότες ὅτι σοὶ λελογίσμεθα. | |
| 3 | For to know you is complete righteousness, and to know your power is the root of immortality. | τὸ γὰρ ἐπίστασθαί σε ὁλόκληρος δικαιοσύνη, καὶ εἰδέναι σου τὸ κράτος ῥίζα ἀθανασίας. | |
| 4 | For neither has the evil intent of human art misled us, nor the fruitless toil of painters, a figure stained with varied colours, | οὔτε γὰρ ἐπλάνησεν ἡμᾶς ἀνθρώπων κακότεχνος ἐπίνοια, οὐδὲ σκιαγράφων πόνος ἄκαρπος, εἶδος σπιλωθὲν χρώμασιν διηλλαγμένοις, | |
| 5 | whose appearance arouses yearning in fools, so that they desire the lifeless form of a dead image. | ὧν ὄψις ἄφροσιν εἰς ὄρεξιν ἔρχεται, ποθεῖ τε νεκρᾶς εἰκόνος εἶδος ἄπνουν. | |
| 6 | Lovers of evil things and fit for such objects of hope are those who either make or desire or worship them. | κακῶν ἐρασταὶ ἄξιοί τε τοιούτων ἐλπίδων καὶ οἱ δρῶντες καὶ οἱ ποθοῦντες καὶ οἱ σεβόμενοι. | |