3 For to be acquainted with you is perfect righteousness, and to know your dominion is the root of immortality. (WEB) 4 For we weren’t led astray by any evil plan of men’s, nor yet by painters’ fruitless labor, a form stained with varied colors, (WEB) 5 the sight of which leads fools into lust. Their desire is for the breathless form of a dead image. (WEB)
Wisdom of Solomon 15:3–5
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Wisdom of Solomon 15:16–18
16 For a man made them, and one whose own spirit is borrowed molded them; for no one has power as a man to mold a god like himself. (WEB) 17 But, being mortal, he makes a dead thing by the work of lawless hands; for he is better than the objects of his worship, since he i… (WEB)
Odes of Solomon 18:9–11
9 Thou art my God. Falsehood and death are not in thy mouth: (ODE) 10 For thy will is perfection; and vanity thou knowest not, (ODE) 11 Nor does it know thee. (ODE)
Wisdom of Solomon 13:2–4
2 But they thought that either fire, or wind, or swift air, or circling stars, or raging water, or luminaries of heaven were gods that rule the world. (WEB) 3 If it was through delight in their beauty that they took them to be gods, let them know how much better their S… (WEB)
Wisdom of Solomon 13:6–8
6 But yet for these men there is but small blame, for they too perhaps go astray while they are seeking God and desiring to find him. (WEB) 7 For they diligently search while living among his works, and they trust their sight that the things that they look at are beauti… (WEB)
Wisdom of Solomon 14:11–13
11 Therefore also there will be a visitation among the idols of the nation, because, though formed of things which God created, they were made an abomination, stumbling blocks to the souls of men, and a snare to the feet of the foolish. (WEB) 12 For the devising of idols… (WEB) 13 … (WEB)
Wisdom of Solomon 12:23–25
23 Therefore also the unrighteous that lived in a life of folly, you tormented through their own abominations. (WEB) 24 For truly they went astray very far in the ways of error, Taking as gods those animals which even among their enemies were held in dishonor, deceived li… (WEB)
Wisdom of Solomon 14:7–9
7 For blessed is wood through which comes righteousness; (WEB) 8 but the idol made with hands is accursed, itself and he that made it; because his was the working, and the corruptible thing was called a god. (WEB) 9 For both the ungodly and his ungodliness are alike hateful to G… (WEB)
Book of Jubilees 12:2–4
2 And he said, 'Behold, here am I, my son.' And he said, 'What help and profit have we from those idols which thou dost worship, And before which thou dost bow thyself? (JUB) 3 For there is no spirit in them, For they are dumb forms, and a misleading of the heart. Worsh… (JUB)
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