Wisdom 15:1-3

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

15 But you, our God, are kind and true,
patient, and ruling all things^[a] in mercy.
² For even if we sin we are yours, knowing your power;
but we will not sin, because we know that you acknowledge us as yours.
³ For to know you is complete righteousness,
and to know your power is the root of immortality.