2 Esdras 7:124

124 because we have lived unacceptable lives.

2 Esdras 7:124 In-Context

122 What good is the promise that the glorious presence of God Most High will protect those who have lived pure lives, when our own lives have been so full of sin?

123 What good is it that Paradise is shown to us, that its imperishable fruit can heal us and provide all we need? We can never go there

124 because we have lived unacceptable lives.

125 What good is it that the faces of those who practice self-control will shine more brightly than the stars, when our own faces will be blacker than the night?

126 Never in our whole lives, when we sinned, did we think about what we would have to suffer after death."

Footnotes

• [a]. [Probable text] unacceptable lives; [Latin] in unacceptable places.