Wisdom of Ben Sira 17:25

New Catholic Bible

²⁵Therefore, return to the Lord and renounce your wicked ways;
pray in his presence and lessen your offense.

Wisdom of Ben Sira 17:25 It is the Lord who gives life and allows people to live on earth. The author still regards the sojourn of the dead as a place in which there is no hope and from which there is no return. Other believers affirm that this life of humans cannot be definitively destroyed by death (Wis 3; 2 Mac 7; 12:44; Dan 12:2-3). Christ will say: “I have come / that they may have life, / and have it in abundance” (Jn 10:10).

New Catholic Bible (NCB)