Common English Bible

2 Esdras 7:110-114 Common English Bible (CEB)

110. and Hezekiah for the people in the days of Sennacherib, and many for many people?

111. If, therefore, the just prayed for the wicked when corruption had increased and injustice had multiplied, why won’t it be the same then?"

112. He answered me: "The present world isn’t the end. Glory does not continuously remain in it, and so those who were able prayed for the weak.

113. But the Judgment Day will be the end of this time and the beginning of the future, endless time in which decay is no more,

114. indulgence is undone, unbelief is cut off, but justice is fully grown, and truth arisen.