2 Esdras 3:20-22

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

²⁰ ‘Yet you did not take away their evil heart from them, so that your law might produce fruit in them. ²¹ For the first Adam, burdened with an evil heart, transgressed and was overcome, as were also all who were descended from him. ²² Thus the disease became permanent; the law was in the hearts of the people along with the evil root; but what was good departed, and the evil remained.