2 Esdras 7:69-71

Common English Bible

⁶⁹ If we were not to come into judgment after death, it would perhaps have been better for us.”

⁷⁰ He replied to me: “When the Most High made the world and Adam and all who are descended from him, he first prepared the judgment and the things that pertain to the judgment. ⁷¹ Now understand on the basis of your own words—because you said, ‘Consciousness grows with us.’