19 and ourselves become a pattern of impiety to the young, as being an example of eating pollution. (WEB)
4 Maccabees 6:19
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4 Maccabees 11:15–17
15 I was born and reared to the same end. We are bound to die also on behalf of the same cause. (WEB) 16 So if you think it is proper to torment us for not eating the unclean, then torment!” (WEB) 17 As he said this, they brought him to the wheel. (WEB)
Job 15:12–14
12 Why has your heart carried you away, and why do your eyes flash, 13 as you turn your spirit against God and pour such words from your mouth? 14 What is man, that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?
Tobit 12:9–11
9 Alms delivers from death, and it purges away all sin. Those who give alms and do righteousness will be filled with life; (WEB) 10 but those who sin are enemies to their own life. (WEB) 11 Surely I will conceal nothing from you. I have said, ‘It is good to conceal the secret of a… (WEB)
4 Maccabees 11:24–26
24 We six youths have destroyed your tyranny. (WEB) 25 For isn’t your inability to overrule our reasoning, and to compel us to eat the unclean, your destruction? (WEB) 26 Your fire is cold to us. Your racks are painless, and your violence harmless. (WEB)
2 Esdras 8:59–61
59 For as the things I have said will welcome you, so thirst and pain which are prepared for them. For the Most High didn’t intend that men should be destroyed, (WEB) 60 but those who are created have themselves defiled the name of him who made them, and were unthankful t… (WEB)
Romans 14:15–17
15 If your brother is distressed by what you eat, you are no longer acting in love. Do not by your eating destroy your brother, for whom Christ died. 16 Do not allow what you consider good, then, to be spoken of as evil. 17 For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eati…
Leviticus 18:23–25
23 You must not lie carnally with any animal, thus defiling yourself with it; a woman must not stand before an animal to mate with it; that is a perversion. 24 Do not defile yourselves by any of these practices, for by all these things the nations I am driving out b…
4 Maccabees 5:18–20
18 Indeed, were our law (as you suppose) not truly divine, and if we wrongly think it divine, we would have no right even in that case to destroy our sense of religion. (WEB) 19 Don’t think that eating unclean meat is a trifling offense. (WEB) 20 For transgression of the law, wheth… (WEB)
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