2 Baruch 22

Related ancient text — scholarly reference

Extra-canonical text — not LDS scripture and not in the KJV Apocrypha. Provided as scholarly reference for parallel literature of the Second Temple period and the early Christian era. Read with discernment; the Apostle Jude quotes 1 Enoch and Paul knew this material, but inclusion here is for study, not doctrine.

1And it came to pass after these things that lo! the heavens were opened, and I saw, and power was given to me, and a voice was heard from on high, and it said unto me:

2'Baruch, Baruch, why art thou troubled?

3He who travels by a road but does not complete it, or who departs by sea but does not arrive at the port, can he be comforted?

4Or he who promises to give a present to another, but does not fulfill it, is it not robbery?

5Or he who sows the earth, but does not reap its fruit in its season, does he not lose everything?

6Or he who plants a plant, unless it grows till the time suitable to it, does he who planted it expect to receive fruit from it?

7Or a woman who has conceived, if she bring forth untimely, does she not assuredly slay her infant?

8Or he who builds a house, if he does not roof it and complete it, can it be called a house? Tell me that first.'

Public-domain text (R.H. Charles 1913 and equivalents). These works are not canonical, but several were widely read in antiquity and one (1 Enoch) is quoted by name in Jude 1:14–15. Useful for understanding the doctrinal landscape from which the apostles and earliest saints taught.