2 Baruch 41

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 I answered and said: "To whom will these things be, or how many (will they be)? or who will be worthy to live at that time?

2For I will speak before Thee everything that I think, and I will ask of Thee regarding those things which I meditate.

3For lo! I see many of Thy people who have withdrawn from Thy covenant, and cast from them the yoke of Thy law.

4But others again I have seen who have forsaken their vanity, and fled for refuge beneath Thy wings.

5What therefore will be to them? or how will the last time receive them?

6Or perhaps the time of these will assuredly be weighed, and as the beam inclines will they be judged accordingly?"

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.