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4 Maccabees 13:7-9
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
4 Maccabees 13:7-9
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
7 so the seven-towered right reason of the youths, by fortifying the harbor of piety, conquered the tempest of the passions.(A) 8 For they constituted a holy chorus of piety and emboldened one another, saying, 9 “Brothers, let us die like brothers for the sake of the law; let us imitate the three youths in Assyria who despised the same ordeal[a] of the furnace.(B)
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