4 Maccabees 7:17-19

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

¹⁷ Some perhaps might say, ‘Not all have full command of their emotions, because not all have prudent reason.’ ¹⁸ But as many as attend to religion with a whole heart, these alone are able to control the passions of the flesh, ¹⁹ since they believe that they, like our patriarchs Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, do not die to God, but live to God.