2 Esdras 7:114-116

Common English Bible

¹¹⁴ indulgence is undone, unbelief is cut off, but justice is fully grown, and truth arisen. ¹¹⁵ Therefore, no one will then be able to have mercy on someone who has been condemned in the judgment, nor to overwhelm one who has conquered.”

¹¹⁶ I answered: “This is my first and last word: It would have been better if the earth hadn’t brought forth Adam, or when it had brought him forth, that it had forced him not to sin.