2 Maccabees 12:45

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁴⁵But if he was looking to the splendid reward that is laid up for those who fall asleep in godliness, it was a holy and pious thought. Therefore he made atonement for the dead, that they might be delivered from their sin.^[a]

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12.45 Vulgate has (verses 45-46): “⁴⁵And because he considered that they who had fallen asleep with godliness bad great grace laid up for them. ⁴⁶It is therefore a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from sins.”

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