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2 Esdras 9:10-15 World English Bible (WEB)

10. For as many as in their life have received benefits, and yet have not known me;

11. and as many as have scorned my law, while they had yet liberty, and, when as yet place of repentance was open to them, understood not, but despised it;

12. the same must know it after death by torment.

13. And therefore be you no longer curious how the ungodly shall be punished; but inquire how the righteous shall be saved, they whose the world is, and for whom the world was created.

14. And I answered and said,

15. I have said before, and now do speak, and will speak it also hereafter, that there be more of them which perish, than of the which will be saved:

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