122 And that the glory of the Most High will defend those who have led a pure life, but we have walked in the most wicked ways of all? (WEB) 123 And that a paradise will be revealed, whose fruit endures without decay, in which is abundance and healing, but we won’t enter into it, (WEB) 124 for we have lived in perverse ways? (WEB)
2 Esdras 7:122–124
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