2 Esdras 3:20-22

Common English Bible

²⁰ “But you didn’t take away from them the inclination to do evil^[a] so that your Law might bear fruit in them. ²¹ The first Adam, burdened with this inclination, disobeyed you and was overcome, but so were all those descended from him. ²² The disease became permanent; the Law was in the people’s heart along with the wicked root, and that which was good departed and the wickedness remained.