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4 Maccabees 16:18-20
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
4 Maccabees 16:18-20
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
18 Remember that it is through God that you have had a share in the world and have enjoyed life, 19 and therefore you ought to endure every suffering for the sake of God. 20 For his sake also our father Abraham was zealous to sacrifice his son Isaac, the ancestor of our nation, and when Isaac saw his father’s hand wielding a knife[a] and descending upon him, he did not cower.(A)
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