4 Maccabees 10:13-15

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

¹³ ‘As for you, do not give way to the same insanity as your brothers, but obey the king and save yourself.’ ¹⁴ But he said to them, ‘You do not have a fire hot enough to make me play the coward. ¹⁵ No—by the blessed death of my brothers, by the eternal destruction of the tyrant, and by the everlasting life of the pious, I will not renounce our noble family ties.