2 Esdras 7:122-124

Common English Bible

¹²² What good is it that the glory of the Most High will protect those who have conducted themselves decently, but we have conducted ourselves indecently? ¹²³ What good is it that paradise will be revealed, whose fruit remains uncorrupted, in which there is plenty and healing, ¹²⁴ but we won’t enter it, for we have visited unseemly places?