118 O Adam, what have you done? For though it was you who sinned, the evil hasn’t fallen on you alone, but on all of us who come from you. (WEB) 119 For what profit is it to us, if an immortal time is promised to us, but we have done deeds that bring death? (WEB) 120 And that there is promised us an everlasting hope, but we have most miserably failed? (WEB)
2 Esdras 7:118–120
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2 Esdras 7:125–127
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2 Esdras 6:58–59
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