123 And that there shall be showed a paradise, whose fruit endures without decay, wherein is abundance and healing, but we shall not enter into it,
124 for we have walked in unpleasant places?
125 And that the faces of them which have used abstinence shall shine above the stars, whereas our faces shall be blacker than darkness?
126 For while we lived and committed iniquity, we considered not what we should have to suffer after death.
127 Then he answered and said, This is the condition of the battle, which man that is born upon the earth shall fight;
128 that, if he be overcome, he shall suffer as you have said: but if he get the victory, he shall receive the thing that I say.
129 For this is the way whereof Moses spoke to the people while he lived, saying, Choose you life, that you may live.