4 Maccabees 15:10-12

Revised Standard Version

¹⁰ For they were righteous and self-controlled and brave and magnanimous, and loved their brothers and their mother, so that they obeyed her even to death in keeping the ordinances. ¹¹ Nevertheless, though so many factors influenced the mother to suffer with them out of love for her children, in the case of none of them were the various tortures strong enough to pervert her reason. ¹² Instead, the mother urged them on, each child singly and all together, to death for the sake of religion.