2 Esdras 7:125-127

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

^55 125 Or that the faces of those who practised self-control shall shine more than the stars, but our faces shall be blacker than darkness? ^56 126 For while we lived and committed iniquity we did not consider what we should suffer after death.’

^57 127 He answered and said, ‘This is the significance of the contest that all who are born on earth shall wage: