2 Esdras 7:123-125

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

^53 123 Or that a paradise shall be revealed, whose fruit remains unspoiled and in which are abundance and healing, but we shall not enter it ^54 124 because we have lived in perverse ways?^{[a] 55 125} Or that the faces of those who practised self-control shall shine more than the stars, but our faces shall be blacker than darkness?