Wisdom 8:19-21 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

19. For I was an ingenious boy and had been dealt a good soul.

20. Even more so, being good, I came to have an undefiled body.

21. And since I know that it is not possible to be chaste except as a gift from God, and that it is a point of wisdom to know whose gift it is, I approached the Lord, and I besought him, and I said with my whole heart:

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