2 Esdras 7:20
“For there be many that perish in this life, because they despise the Lawe of God that is set before them.”
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2 Esdras 7:20 Context
18Neuerthelesse, the righteous shal suffer strait things, and hope for wide: for they that haue done wickedly, haue suffered the strait things, and yet shall not see the wide. 19And he said vnto me, There is no iudge aboue God, and none that hath vnderstanding aboue the highest. 20For there be many that perish in this life, because they despise the Lawe of God that is set before them. 21For God hath giuen strait commandement to such as came, what they should doe to liue, euen as they came, and what they should obserue to auoid punishment. 22Neuerthelesse they were not obedient vnto him, but spake against him, and imagined vaine things:
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For there be many that perish in this life, because they despise the law of God that is set before them.
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