4 Maccabees 10:19-21

Common English Bible

¹⁹ See? Here’s my tongue! Cut it off. You won’t make my mind quiet by doing that! ²⁰ For God’s sake we gladly allow our bodies to be cut to pieces. ²¹ God will quickly hunt you down for this, because you are cutting out a tongue that has been musical when it praised God with hymns!”