2 Esdras 7:123-125

Common English Bible

¹²³ What good is it that paradise will be revealed, whose fruit remains uncorrupted, in which there is plenty and healing, ¹²⁴ but we won’t enter it, for we have visited unseemly places? ¹²⁵ What good is it that the faces of those who practiced abstinence will shine brighter than stars when our faces are blacker than darkness?