2 Esdras 7:76-79 World English Bible (WEB)

76. And he answered me, and said, I will show you this also; but join not yourself with them that are scorners, nor count yourself with them that are tormented.

77. For you have a treasure of good works laid up with the Most High, but it shall not be showed you until the last times.

78. For concerning death the teaching is: When the determinate sentence has gone forth from the Most High that a man should die, as the spirit leaves the body to return again to him who gave it, it adores the glory of the Most High first of all.

79. And if it be one of those that have been scorners and have not kept the way of the Most High, and that have despised his law, and that hate them that fear God,

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