Wisdom 2:21-23

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

Error of the Wicked

²¹Thus they reasoned, but they were led astray,
for their wickedness blinded them,
²²and they did not know the secret purposes of God,
nor hoped for the wages of holiness,
nor discerned the prize for blameless souls;
²³for God created us for incorruption,
and made us in the image of his own eternity,^[a]

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Wisdom 2:23 Other ancient authorities read nature

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