2 Esdras 7:122-124

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

^52 122 Or that the glory of the Most High will defend those who have led a pure life, but we have walked in the most wicked ways? ^53 123 Or that a paradise shall be revealed, whose fruit remains unspoiled and in which are abundance and healing, but we shall not enter it ^54 124 because we have lived in perverse ways?^[a]