2 Esdras 7:111

111 If, therefore, the just prayed for the wicked when corruption had increased and injustice had multiplied, why won't it be the same then?"

2 Esdras 7:111 In-Context

109 and Elijah for those who received the rain, and for a dead person that he might live;

110 and Hezekiah for the people in the days of Sennacherib, and many for many people?

111 If, therefore, the just prayed for the wicked when corruption had increased and injustice had multiplied, why won't it be the same then?"

112 He answered me: "The present world isn't the end. Glory does not continuously remain in it, and so those who were able prayed for the weak.

113 But the Judgment Day will be the end of this time and the beginning of the future, endless time in which decay is no more,