Wisdom 8:17 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

When I considered these things inwardly and pondered in my heart that in kinship with wisdom there is immortality,

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I thought all these things to myself. I reflected on them in my heart. I thought: If immortality is to be found by becoming part of Wisdom’s family,

Thinking these things within myself, and recalling in my heart that immortality is the intention of wisdom,

Thinking these things with myself, and pondering them in my heart, that to be allied to wisdom is immortality,

And so I thought it over: to be wedded to Wisdom is to live forever,

When I considered these things in myself, and thought in my heart how immortality is in kinship to wisdom,

I thought deeply about Wisdom and all that she offered— unending life