118. Adam, what have you done?! If you sinned, the downfall wasn’t yours alone but also ours who are descended from you.
119. What benefit is it to us that we are promised an immortal time, but we have done works that bring death?
120. What good is it to us that everlasting hope has been predicted for us, but we have utterly failed?
121. What good is it that safe and healthy dwelling places are reserved, but we have behaved badly?
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?
125. What good is it that the faces of those who practiced abstinence will shine brighter than stars when our faces are blacker than darkness?
126. While we were alive and doing evil, we didn’t think about what we would suffer after death."
127. He answered: "These are the rules for the contest in which everyone born on earth takes part:
128. Those who are defeated will suffer what you said, but those who conquer will receive what I say.
129. This is the path that Moses declared when he was alive, speaking to the people, Choose life for yourself… so that you may live.