2 Esdras 7:41

41 Even so now, seeing corruption has grown up and wickedness increased, and the righteous have prayed for the ungodly, why shall it not be so now also?"

2 Esdras 7:41 In-Context

39 and Elijah for those who received rain and for the dead, that he might live,
40 and Hezekiah for the people in the time of Sennacherib, and many for many.
41 Even so now, seeing corruption has grown up and wickedness increased, and the righteous have prayed for the ungodly, why shall it not be so now also?"
42 He answered me and said, "This present life is not the end, where much glory doth abide; therefore have they prayed for the weak.
43 But the Day of Doom shall be the end of this time and the beginning of the immortality to come, wherein corruption is past,
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