2 Esdras 7:111-113

Common English Bible

¹¹¹ If, therefore, the just prayed for the wicked when corruption had increased and injustice had multiplied, why won’t it be the same then?”

¹¹² He answered me: “The present world isn’t the end. Glory does not^[a] continuously remain in it, and so those who were able prayed for the weak. ¹¹³ But the Judgment Day will be the end of this time and the beginning of the future, endless time in which decay is no more,