4 Maccabees 8:19-21

Revised Standard Version

¹⁹ O men and brothers, should we not fear the instruments of torture and consider the threats of torments, and give up this vain opinion and this arrogance that threatens to destroy us? ²⁰ Let us take pity on our youth and have compassion on our mother’s age; ²¹ and let us seriously consider that if we disobey we are dead!