2 Esdras 7:125

125 What good is it that the faces of those who practiced abstinence will shine brighter than stars when our faces are blacker than darkness?

2 Esdras 7:125 In-Context

123 What good is it that paradise will be revealed, whose fruit remains uncorrupted, in which there is plenty and healing,

124 but we won't enter it, for we have visited unseemly places?

125 What good is it that the faces of those who practiced abstinence will shine brighter than stars when our faces are blacker than darkness?

126 While we were alive and doing evil, we didn't think about what we would suffer after death."

127 He answered: "These are the rules for the contest in which everyone born on earth takes part: