2 Esdras 9:5-7

Revised Standard Version

⁵ For just as with everything that has occurred in the world, the beginning is evident,^[a] and the end manifest; ⁶ so also are the times of the Most High: the beginnings are manifest in wonders and mighty works, and the end in requital^[b] and in signs. ⁷ And it shall be that every one who will be saved and will be able to escape on account of his works, or on account of the faith by which he has believed,