45 Don’t be angry with us, but spare your people and have mercy upon your inheritance, for you have mercy upon your own creation.” (WEB) 46 Then he answered me, “Things present are for those who live now, and things to come for those who will live hereafter. (WEB) 47 For you come far short of being able to love my creature more than I. But you have compared yourself to the unrighteous. Don’t do that! (WEB) 48 Yet in this will you be admirable to the Most High, (WEB) 49 in that you have humbled yourself, as it becomes you, and have not judged yourself among the righteous, so as to be much glorified. (WEB)
2 Esdras 8:45–49
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