Wisdom 4:2-4

Good News Translation

² Virtue provides an example for people to follow; when it is not there, they miss it. It has always been the finest prize a person can win, and it always will be so. It is the noblest of all the good qualities a person can have.

³ No matter how many children are born of a forbidden union, none of them will ever amount to anything. They are illegitimate; they can never lay a firm foundation for themselves, never take deep root. ⁴ Like trees with shallow roots, they put out leaves for a while, but they sway in the wind, and storms uproot them.