Wisdom of Solomon 15:3
Deuterocanon
1 But you, our God, are kind and true, patient, and ruling all things 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. 4 For neither has the evil intent of human art misled us, nor the fruitless toil of painters, a figure stained with varied colors, 5 whose appearance arouses yearning in fools, so that they desire the lifeless form of a dead image. 6 Lovers of evil things and fit for such objects of hope are those who either make or desire or worship them.
Date: 100-50 B.C.E. (based on scholarly estimates)
Source
John 17:3
New Testament
1 When Jesus had finished saying these things, he looked upward to heaven and said, “Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, so that your Son may glorify you— 2 just as you have given him authority over all humanity, so that he may give eternal life to everyone you have given him. 3 Now this is eternal life—that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you sent. 4 I glorified you on earth by completing the work you gave me to do. 5 And now, Father, glorify me at your side with the glory I had with you before the world was created.
Date: 90-110 C.E. (based on scholarly estimates)
Source
Notes and References
"... 'This is eternal life: that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you have sent, Jesus Christ' ... It is unclear whether verse 3 is attributed to Jesus or if it is intended as a comment or exclamation by the evangelist. Compare with Wisdom of Solomon 15:3 ..."
Cleenewerck, Laurent
The Eastern / Greek Orthodox Bible Based on the Septuagint and the Patriarchal Text
(p. 270) Euclid University, 2013
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