2 Esdras 14:13-15

Common English Bible

¹³ Now then put your house in order; give solemn instruction to your people. Console the humble among them, and instruct those who are wise.^[a] Renounce now this corruptible life, ¹⁴ put away short-lived thoughts, cast off from yourself human burdens, strip off your weak nature, push aside the thoughts that most trouble you, and hasten to depart from these times. ¹⁵ As for the evils that you have now seen happen, people will yet do worse than these.