4 Maccabees 10:18-20

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

¹⁸ But he said, ‘Even if you remove my organ of speech, God hears also those who are mute. ¹⁹ See, here is my tongue; cut it off, for in spite of this you will not make our reason speechless. ²⁰ Gladly, for the sake of God, we let our bodily members be mutilated.