4 Maccabees 5:23-25

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²³ but it teaches us self-control, so that we master all pleasures and desires, and it also trains us in courage, so that we endure any suffering willingly;^{(A) 24} it instructs us in justice, so that in all our dealings we give what is due;^[a] and it teaches us piety, so that with proper reverence we worship the only living God.

²⁵ “Therefore we do not eat defiling food, for since we believe that the law was established by God, we know that the Creator of the world in giving us the law has shown sympathy toward us in accordance with nature.