2 Esdras 14:34

34 If then you will rule your mind and instruct your heart, you will be kept alive, and after death you will attain mercy.

2 Esdras 14:34 In-Context

32 Since he is a just judge, in time he took away from you what he granted.

33 Now you are here, and your relatives live even farther away.

34 If then you will rule your mind and instruct your heart, you will be kept alive, and after death you will attain mercy.

35 Judgment comes after death, when we are restored to life, and then the names of the just will appear and the deeds of the wicked will be exposed.

36 But let no one approach me now or come looking for me for forty days."