From the book of the Wisdom of Solomon (a Deuterocanonical book) Chapter 15: 1-6
Wisdom 15
15:1 But you, our God, are kind and true, slow to anger, governing the universe with mercy.
15:2 Even if we sin, we are yours, since we acknowledge your power, but we will not sin, knowing we count as yours.
15:3 To know you is indeed the perfect virtue, and to know your power is the root of immortality.
15:4 We have not been duped by inventions of misapplied human skill, or by the sterile work of painters, by figures daubed with assorted colours,
15:5 the sight of which sets fools yearning and hankering for the lifeless form of an unbreathing image.
15:6 Lovers of evil and worthy of such hopes are those who make them, those who want them and those who worship them.
Culled from the Good News Bible with Deuterocanonical Book