2 Esdras 7:92
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92 The first order: because they have striven with great effort to overcome the evil thought that was formed with them, so that it might not lead them astray from life into death.(A)
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2 Esdras 3:20-22
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20 “Yet you did not take away their evil heart from them, so that your law might produce fruit in them.(A) 21 For the first Adam, burdened with an evil heart, transgressed and was overcome, as were also all who were descended from him.(B) 22 Thus the disease became permanent; the law was in the hearts of the people along with the evil root, but what was good departed, and the evil remained.(C)
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2 Esdras 4:30
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30 For a grain of evil seed was sown in Adam’s heart from the beginning, and how much ungodliness it has produced until now—and will produce until the time of threshing comes!(A)
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2 Esdras 4:31
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31 Consider now for yourself how much fruit of ungodliness a grain of evil seed has produced.
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