2 Esdras 9:13-15

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

¹³ Therefore, do not continue to be curious about how the ungodly will be punished, but inquire how the righteous will be saved, those to whom the age belongs and for whose sake the age was made.”^[a](A)

The Argument Recapitulated

¹⁴ I answered and said, ¹⁵ “I said before, and I say now and will say it again: there are more who perish than those who will be saved,^(B)