12 Therefore the divine vengeance is reserving you for eternal fire and torments, which will cling to you for all time. (WEB) 13 Weren’t you ashamed, man as you are, yet most savage, to cut out the tongues of men of like feeling and origin, and having thus abused to torture them? (WEB) 14 But they, bravely dying, fulfilled their religion toward God. (WEB)
4 Maccabees 12:12–14
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4 Maccabees 10:10–12
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4 Maccabees 9:31–32
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4 Maccabees 6:20–22
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4 Maccabees 17:9–11
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2 Maccabees 7:35–37
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