2 Esdras 7:20: "For there be many that perish in this life, because they despise the law of God that is set before them."

2 Esdras 7:21: "For God hath given strait commandment to such as came, what they should do to live, even as they came, and what they should observe to avoid punishment."

2 Esdras 7:22: "Nevertheless they were not obedient unto him; but spake against him, and imagined vain things;"

2 Esdras 7:23: "And deceived themselves by their wicked deeds; and said of the most High, that he is not; and knew not his ways:"

2 Esdras 7:24: "But his law have they despised, and denied his covenants; in his statutes have they not been faithful, and have not performed his works."

2 Esdras 7:25: "And therefore, Esdras, for the empty are empty things, and for the full are the full things."

2 Esdras 8:50: "For many great miseries shall be done to them that in the latter time shall dwell in the world, because they have walked in great pride."

2 Esdras 8:56: "For when they had taken liberty, they despised the most High, thought scorn of his law, and forsook his ways."

2 Esdras 8:57: "Moreover they have trodden down his righteous,"

2 Esdras 8:58: "And said in their heart, that there is no God; yea, and that knowing they must die."

2 Esdras 8:59: "For as the things aforesaid shalt receive you, so thirst and pain are prepared for them: for it was not his will that men should come to nought:"

2 Esdras 8:60: "But they which be created have defiled the name of him that made them, and were unthankful unto him which prepared life for them."

2 Esdras 8:61: "And therefore is my judgment now at hand."

2 Esdras 9:9: "Then shall they be in pitiful case, which now have abused my ways: and they that have cast them away despitefully shall dwell in torments."

2 Esdras 9:10: "For such as in their life have received benefits, and have not known me;"

2 Esdras 9:11: "And they that have loathed my law, while they had yet liberty, and, when as yet place of repentance was open unto them, understood not, but despised it;"

2 Esdras 9:12: "The same must know it after death by pain."