4 Maccabees 13:23-25

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²³ Therefore, when sympathy and brotherly affection had been so established, the seven brothers were the more sympathetic to one another. ²⁴ Since they had been educated by the same law and trained in the same virtues and brought up together in right living, they loved one another all the more. ²⁵ A common zeal for nobility strengthened their goodwill toward one another and their concord,