8 For having arranged a holy choir of piety, they encouraged one another, saying, (WEB) 9 “Brothers, may we die brotherly for the law. Let us imitate the three young men in Assyria who despised the equally afflicting furnace. (WEB) 10 Let’s not be cowards in the manifestation of piety.” (WEB)
4 Maccabees 13:8–10
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4 Maccabees 9:22–24
22 But, as though transformed by fire into immortality, he nobly endured the rackings, saying, (WEB) 23 “Imitate me, O kindred. Never desert your station, nor renounce my brotherhood in courage. Fight the holy and honorable fight of religion, (WEB) 24 by which means our just and pa… (WEB)
1 Maccabees 2:49–51
49 The days of Mattathias drew near that he should die, and he said to his sons, “Now pride and scorn have gained strength. It is a season of overthrow and indignant wrath. (WEB) 50 Now, my children, be zealous for the law, and give your lives for the covenant of your fat… (WEB)
4 Maccabees 9:1–2
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1 Maccabees 2:63–65
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4 Maccabees 17:9–11
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2 Maccabees 7:36–38
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4 Maccabees 6:20–22
20 It would be disgraceful if we would live on some short time, and that scorned by all men for cowardice, (WEB) 21 and be condemned by the tyrant for cowardice by not contending to the death for our divine law. (WEB) 22 Therefore you, O children of Abraham, die nobly for your reli… (WEB)
4 Maccabees 12:13–15
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) 15 But you will groan as you deserve for having sl… (WEB)
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