2 Esdras 7:137-139

Revised Standard Version

^67 137 for if he did not make them abound, the world with those who inhabit it would not have life; ^68 138 and he is called giver, because if he did not give out of his goodness so that those who have committed iniquities might be relieved of them, not one ten-thousandth of mankind could have life; ^69 139 and judge, because if he did not pardon those who were created by his word and blot out the multitude of their sins,^[a]