2 Esdras 9:12
King James VersionSource notes
“The same must know it after death by pain.”
Context
9Then shall they be in pitiful case, which now have abused my ways: and they that have cast them away despitefully shall dwell in torments.
10For such as in their life have received benefits, and have not known me;
11And 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;
12The same must know it after death by pain.
13And therefore be thou not curious how the ungodly shall be punished, and when: but enquire how the righteous shall be saved, whose the world is, and for whom the world is created.
14Then answered I and said,
15I have said before, and now do speak, and will speak it also hereafter, that there be many more of them which perish, than of them which shall be saved: