17 For when men don’t believe that you are perfect in power, you show your strength, and in dealing with those who think this, you confuse their boldness. (WEB) 18 But you, being sovereign in strength, judge in gentleness, and with great forbearance you govern us; for the power is yours whenever you desire it. (WEB) 19 But you taught your people by such works as these, how the righteous must be kind. You made your sons to have good hope, because you give repentance when men have sinned. (WEB)
Wisdom of Solomon 12:17–19
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Wisdom of Solomon 11:22–24
22 Because the whole world before you is as a grain in a balance, and as a drop of dew that comes down upon the earth in the morning. (WEB) 23 But you have mercy on all men, because you have power to do all things, and you overlook the sins of men to the end that they may… (WEB)
Wisdom of Solomon 16:23–25
23 and that this fire, again, in order that righteous people may be nourished, has even forgotten its own power. (WEB) 24 For the creation, ministering to you, its maker, strains its force against the unrighteous for punishment and in kindness, slackens it on behalf of th… (WEB)
Wisdom of Solomon 12:8–10
8 Nevertheless you even spared these as men, and you sent hornets as forerunners of your army, to cause them to perish little by little. (WEB) 9 Not that you were unable to subdue the ungodly under the hand of the righteous in battle, or by terrible beasts or by a stern… (WEB)
Wisdom of Solomon 6:2–4
2 Give ear, you rulers who have dominion over many people, and make your boast in multitudes of nations, (WEB) 3 because your dominion was given to you from the Lord, and your sovereignty from the Most High. He will search out your works, and will inquire about your pla… (WEB)
2 Baruch 21:20–22
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Wisdom of Solomon 12:1–3
1 For your incorruptible spirit is in all things. (WEB) 2 Therefore you convict little by little those who fall from the right way, and, putting them in remembrance by the things wherein they sin, you admonish them, that escaping from their wickedness they may believe i… (WEB)
Wisdom of Solomon 15:1–2
1 But you, our God, are gracious and true, patient, and in mercy ordering all things. (WEB) 2 For even if we sin, we are yours, knowing your dominion; but we will not sin, knowing that we have been accounted yours. (WEB)
Wisdom of Solomon 12:25–27
25 Therefore, as to unreasoning children, you sent your judgment to mock them. (WEB) 26 But those who would not be admonished by mild correction will experience the deserved judgment of God. (WEB) 27 For through the sufferings they were indignant of, being punished in these creatur… (WEB)
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