sn42.6:4.1 What do you think, chief?
sn42.6:4.2 Take a person who kills living creatures, steals, and commits sexual misconduct. They use speech that’s false, backbiting, harsh, or nonsensical. And they’re covetous, malicious, and have wrong view.
sn42.6:4.3 A large crowd were to come together to offer up supplication and entreaty, circumambulating them with cupped palms and saying:
sn42.6:4.4 ‘When this person’s body breaks up, after death, may they be reborn in a good place, a heavenly realm!’
sn42.6:4.5 What do you think, chief?
sn42.6:4.6 Would that person be reborn in heaven because of their supplications?”
sn42.6:4.7 “No, sir.”