2 Esdras 7:58

58 that if he be overcome he shall suffer as thou hast said, but if he get the victory he shall receive the thing that I say.

2 Esdras 7:58 In-Context

56 For while we lived and committed iniquity, we considered not that we should begin to suffer for it after death."

57 Then he answered me and said, "This is the condition of the battle which man who is born upon the earth shall fight:

58 that if he be overcome he shall suffer as thou hast said, but if he get the victory he shall receive the thing that I say.

59 For this is the life whereof Moses spoke unto the people while he lived, saying, `Choose thee life, that thou mayest live!'

60 Nevertheless they believed not him, nor yet the prophets after him, no, nor me, who have spoken unto them,