2 Maccabees 6:25-27

Good News Translation

     ²⁵ If I pretended to eat this meat, just to live a little while longer, it would bring shame and disgrace on me and lead many young people astray. ²⁶ For the present I might be able to escape what you could do to me, but whether I live or die, I cannot escape Almighty God. ²⁷ If I die bravely now, it will show that I deserved my long life.