2 Esdras 7:70

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.

2 Esdras 7:70 In-Context

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.

71 Now understand on the basis of your own words—because you said, ‘Consciousness grows with us.'

72 Those who sojourn on earth will be tormented precisely because, although they were aware, they committed violations. Although they received the commandments, they didn't keep them. When they did follow the Law, they falsified its contents.