2 Esdras 13:20
King James VersionSource notes
“Yet is it easier for him that is in danger to come into these things, than to pass away as a cloud out of the world, and not to see the things that happen in the last days. And he answered unto me, and said,”
Context
17For they that were not left were in heaviness.
18Now understand I the things that are laid up in the latter days, which shall happen unto them, and to those that are left behind.
19Therefore are they come into great perils and many necessities, like as these dreams declare.
20Yet is it easier for him that is in danger to come into these things, than to pass away as a cloud out of the world, and not to see the things that happen in the last days. And he answered unto me, and said,
21The interpretation of the vision shall I shew thee, and I will open unto thee the thing that thou hast required.
22Whereas thou hast spoken of them that are left behind, this is the interpretation:
23He that shall endure the peril in that time hath kept himself: they that be fallen into danger are such as have works, and faith toward the Almighty.