13 Now therefore set your house in order, reprove your people, comfort the lowly among them, and instruct those of them who are wise, and now renounce the life that is corruptible, (WEB) 14 and let go of the mortal thoughts, cast away from you the burdens of man, put off now your weak nature, (WEB) 15 lay aside the thoughts that are most grievous to you, and hurry to escape from these times. (WEB)
2 Esdras 14:13–15
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