4 Maccabees 14:4-6

Common English Bible

⁴ None of the seven boys gave in to fear or hesitated in the face of death. ⁵ Instead, all of them rushed to face death by torture, as if they were running a race toward immortality. ⁶ They were like our hands and feet that move together in harmony, led by the mind. So also these holy boys moved together in harmony toward death as if they were moved by the spirit of respect for God that lasts forever. They were moved to make an agreement with death for the sake of that life.