4 Maccabees 16:1-3

Common English Bible

16 So if a woman who was an elderly mother of seven sons put up with seeing her children tortured to death, then without question godly thinking is the master of the emotions. ² I have shown that not only men have control over their emotions but also a woman scorned the greatest torture. ³ The lions that surrounded Daniel weren’t as wild, and Mishael’s fiery furnace wasn’t as burning hot as this mother’s natural love for her children. Her love was stirred up inside her as she saw her seven sons tortured in so many ways.