2 Esdras 8:1-2
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8 He answered me and said, “The Most High made this world for the sake of many but the world to come for the sake of only a few.(A) 2 But I tell you a parable, Ezra. Just as, when you ask the earth, it will tell you that it provides a large amount of clay from which earthenware is made but only a little dust from which gold comes, so is the course of the present world.(B)
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