2 Esdras 8:36

36 For in this, O Lord, your righteousness and goodness will be declared, when you are merciful to those who have no store of good works."

2 Esdras 8:36 In-Context

34 But what are mortals, that you are angry with them; or what is a corruptible race, that you are so bitter against it?

35 For in truth there is no one among those who have been born who has not acted wickedly; among those who have existed there is no one who has not done wrong.

36 For in this, O Lord, your righteousness and goodness will be declared, when you are merciful to those who have no store of good works."

37 He answered me and said, "Some things you have spoken rightly, and it will turn out according to your words.

38 For indeed I will not concern myself about the fashioning of those who have sinned, or about their death, their judgment, or their destruction;