8. shall be preserved from the said perils, and shall see my salvation in my land, and within my borders, which I have sanctified for me from the beginning.
9. Then shall they be amazed, which now have abused my ways: and they that have cast them away despitefully shall dwell in torments.
10. For as many as in their life have received benefits, and yet have not known me;
11. and as many as have scorned my law, while they had yet liberty, and, when as yet place of repentance was open to them, understood not, but despised it;
12. the same must know it after death by torment.
13. And therefore be you no longer curious how the ungodly shall be punished; but inquire how the righteous shall be saved, they whose the world is, and for whom the world was created.
14. And I answered and said,
15. I have said before, and now do speak, and will speak it also hereafter, that there be more of them which perish, than of the which will be saved:
16. like as a wave is greater than a drop.
17. And he answered me, saying, Like as the field is, so also the seed; and as the flowers be, such are the colors also; and such as the work is, such also is the judgement thereon; and as is the husbandman, so is his threshing floor also. For there was a time in the world,
18. even then when I was preparing for them that now live, before the world was made for them to dwell in; and then no man spoke against me,
19. for there was not any: but now they which are created in this world that is prepared, both with a table that fails not, and a law which is unsearchable, are corrupted in their manners.
20. So I considered my world, and, behold, it was destroyed, and my earth, and, behold, it was in peril, because of the devices that were come into it.