2 Esdras 7:68

68 All who are born are mixed up with violations, full of sins, and weighed down with crimes.

2 Esdras 7:68 In-Context

66 It is much better for them than for us. They don't expect judgment. They don't know about either the torments or the deliverance that you promise after death.

67 But what does it profit us that we will be preserved, only to be tortured with torments?

68 All who are born are mixed up with violations, full of sins, and weighed down with crimes.

69 If we were not to come into judgment after death, it would perhaps have been better for us."

70 He replied to me: "When the Most High made the world and Adam and all who are descended from him, he first prepared the judgment and the things that pertain to the judgment.