2 Esdras 9:10-15

1. 10 For such as in their life have received benefits, and have not known me;

2. 11 And they that have loathed my law, while they had yet liberty, and, when as yet place of repentance was open unto them, understood not, but despised it;

3. 12 The same must know it after death by pain.

4. 13 And therefore be thou not curious how the ungodly shall be punished, and when: but enquire how the righteous shall be saved, whose the world is, and for whom the world is created.

5. 14 Then answered I and said,

6. 15 I have said before, and now do speak, and will speak it also hereafter, that there be many more of them which perish, than of them which shall be saved:

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