2 Esdras 7:117-119

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¹¹⁷ For what good is it to all that they live in sorrow now and expect punishment after death?^{(A) 118} O Adam, what have you done? For though it was you who sinned, the fall was not yours alone but ours also who are your descendants.^{(B) 119} For what good is it to us, if an immortal time has been promised to us, but we have done deeds that bring death?^(C)