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4 Maccabees 17:15
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4 Maccabees 17:10–12
10 These also avenged their nation, looking to God, and enduring torments to death.” (WEB) 11 For it was truly a divine contest which was carried through by them. (WEB) 12 For at that time virtue presided over the contest, approving the victory through endurance, namely, immortalit… (WEB)
4 Maccabees 18:2–4
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4 Maccabees 12:13–15
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2 Timothy 2:4–6
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1 Clement 55:2–4
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Psalms 78:65–67
65 Then the Lord awoke as from sleep, like a mighty warrior overcome by wine. 66 He beat back His foes; He put them to everlasting shame. 67 He rejected the tent of Joseph and refused the tribe of Ephraim.
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