2 Esdras 7:47

47 For what profit is it for men now in this present time to live in heaviness and after death to look for punishment?

2 Esdras 7:47 In-Context

45 Then shall no man be able to save him that is destroyed, nor to oppress him that hath gotten the victory."
46 I answered then and said, "This is my first and last saying: that it would have been better not to have given the earth unto Adam, or else, when it was given him, to have restrained him from sinning.
47 For what profit is it for men now in this present time to live in heaviness and after death to look for punishment?
48 O thou Adam, what hast thou done? For though it was thou that sinned, thou art not fallen alone, but we all who come from thee.
49 what profit is it unto us if there be promised us an immortal time, whereas we have done the works that bring death?
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