4 Maccabees 15:6-8

Revised Standard Version

⁶ The mother of the seven boys, more than any other mother, loved her children. In seven pregnancies she had implanted in herself tender love toward them, ⁷ and because of the many pains she suffered with each of them she had sympathy for them; ⁸ yet because of the fear of God she disdained the temporary safety of her children.