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4 Maccabees 5:21-23
Revised Standard Version
4 Maccabees 5:21-23
Revised Standard Version
21 for in either case the law is equally despised. 22 You scoff at our philosophy as though living by it were irrational, 23 but it teaches us self-control, so that we master all pleasures and desires, and it also trains us in courage, so that we endure any suffering willingly;
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