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2 Esdras 7:87-92 World English Bible (WEB)

87. The seventh way, which is more grievous than all the aforesaid ways, because they shall pine away in confusion and be consumed with shame, and shall be withered up by fears, seeing the glory of the Most High before whom they have sinned while living, and before whom they shall be judged in the last times.

88. Now this is the order of those who have kept the ways of the Most High, when they shall be separated from the corruptible vessel.

89. In the time that they lived therein they painfully served the Most High, and were in jeopardy every hour, that they might keep the law of the lawgiver perfectly.

90. Wherefore this is the teaching concerning them:

91. First of all they shall see with great joy the glory of him who takes them up, for they shall have rest in seven orders.

92. The first order, because they have striven with great labor to overcome the evil thought which was fashoned together with them, that it might not lead them astray from life into death.