58 and said in their heart that there is no God—even knowing that they must die. (WEB) 59 For as the things I have said will welcome you, so thirst and pain which are prepared for them. For the Most High didn’t intend that men should be destroyed, (WEB) 60 but those who are created have themselves defiled the name of him who made them, and were unthankful to him who prepared life for them. (WEB)
2 Esdras 8:58–60
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