9 Then those who now have abused my ways will be amazed. Those who have cast them away despitefully will live in torments. (WEB) 10 For as many as in their life have received benefits, and yet have not known me, (WEB) 11 and as many as have scorned my law, while they still had liberty and when an opportunity to repent was open to them, didn’t understand, but despised it, (WEB) 12 must know it in torment after death. (WEB)
2 Esdras 9:9–12
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