2 Esdras 7:127

127 He answered and said, “This is the significance of the contest that all who are born on earth shall wage:

2 Esdras 7:127 In-Context

125 Or that the faces of those who practiced self-control shall shine more than the stars, but our faces shall be blacker than darkness?

126 For while we lived and committed iniquity we did not consider what we should suffer after death.”

127 He answered and said, “This is the significance of the contest that all who are born on earth shall wage:

128 if they are defeated they shall suffer what you have said, but if they are victorious they shall receive what I have said.[ai]

129 For this is the way of which Moses, while he was alive, spoke to the people, saying, ‘Choose life for yourself, so that you may live!’