4 Maccabees 18:6-8

Common English Bible

The mother’s moral principles

⁶ The mother of the seven sons also shared these moral principles with her children: ⁷ “I was a virgin who was sexually pure: I didn’t go outside of my father’s house, but I carefully took care of the body that was formed from a rib. ⁸ No man who takes advantage of women ever tempted me to have sex in an isolated field. The destructive, lying snake didn’t ruin my innocence either.