2 Esdras 9:36

36 For we who have received the law perish by sin, and our heart also which received it.

2 Esdras 9:36 In-Context

34 And lo, it is a custom: when the ground hath received seed, or the sea a ship, or any vessel meat or drink, having perished wherein it was sown or cast into,

35 that thing also, which was sown or cast therein or received, doth perish and remaineth not with us; but with us it hath not happened so.

36 For we who have received the law perish by sin, and our heart also which received it.

37 Notwithstanding, the law perisheth not, but remaineth in his force."

38 And when I spoke these things in my heart, I looked back with mine eyes, and upon the right side I saw a woman; and behold, she mourned and wept with a loud voice, and was much grieved at heart, and her clothes were rent, and she had ashes upon her head.