2 Esdras 8:40

40 As I have spoken now, so shall it come to pass.Œ

2 Esdras 8:40 In-Context

38 For indeed I will not think on the disposition of them that have sinned before death, before judgment, before destruction;

39 but I will rejoice over the disposition of the righteous, and I will remember also their pilgrimage, and the salvation and the reward that they shall have.

40 As I have spoken now, so shall it come to pass.Œ

41 For as the husbandman soweth much seed upon the ground and planteth many trees, and yet the thing that is sown well in his season cometh not up, neither doth all that is planted take root, even so it is of them that are sown in the world: they shall not all be saved."

42 I answered then and said, "If I have found grace, let me speak.