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4 Maccabees 2:14-16
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
4 Maccabees 2:14-16
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
14 Do not consider it paradoxical when reason, through the law, can prevail even over enmity. The fruit trees of the enemy are not cut down, but one preserves the property of enemies from marauders and helps raise up what has fallen.[a](A)
15 It is evident that reason rules even[b] the more violent passions: lust for power, vanity, boasting, arrogance, and malice. 16 For the temperate mind repels all these malicious passions, just as it repels anger—for it is sovereign over even this.
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