Good News Bible Anglicised

2 Esdras 7:123-126 Good News Bible Anglicised (GNBDC)

123. What good is it that Paradise is shown to us, that its imperishable fruit can heal us and provide all we need? We can never go there

124. because we have lived unacceptable lives.

125. What good is it that the faces of those who practise self-control will shine more brightly than the stars, when our own faces will be blacker than the night?

126. Never in our whole lives, when we sinned, did we think about what we would have to suffer after death.”