1 Esdras 4:37-39

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

³⁷ Wine is unrighteous, the king is unrighteous, women are unrighteous, all human beings are unrighteous, all their works are unrighteous, and all such things. There is no truth in them and in their unrighteousness they will perish. ³⁸ But truth endures and is strong for ever, and lives and prevails for ever and ever. ³⁹ With it there is no partiality or preference, but it does what is righteous instead of anything that is unrighteous or wicked. Everyone approves its deeds,