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) 125 And that the faces of those who have practiced self-control will shine more than the stars, but our faces will be blacker than darkness? (WEB)
2 Esdras 7:123–125
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