4 Maccabees 11:3-5

Common English Bible

³ I’ve come forward of my own free will so that by killing me, you will receive even more severe punishment at the hands of God’s justice for more crimes! ⁴ Enemy of moral character! Enemy of the human race! For what crime are you destroying us in this way? ⁵ For honoring the creator of all things and living according to his moral Law?