2 Esdras 7:41
“Euen so now seeing corruption is growen vp, and wickednesse increased, and the righteous haue prayed for the vngodly: wherefore shall it not be so now also?”
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2 Esdras 7:41 Context
39And Helias for those that receiued raine, & for the dead that hee might liue. 40And Ezechias for the people in the time of Sennacherib: and many for many. 41Euen so now seeing corruption is growen vp, and wickednesse increased, and the righteous haue prayed for the vngodly: wherefore shall it not be so now also? 42He answered me and said, This present life is not the end where much glory doth abide; therefore haue they prayed for the weake. 43But the day of doome shall be the end of this time, and the beginning of the immortality for to come, wherein corruption is past.
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Even so now, seeing corruption is grown up, and wickedness increased, and the righteous have prayed for the ungodly: wherefore shall it not be so now also?
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