4 Maccabees 5:18-20

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

¹⁸ Even if, as you suppose, our law were not truly divine and we had wrongly held it to be divine, not even so would it be right for us to invalidate our reputation for piety. ¹⁹ Therefore do not suppose that it would be a petty sin if we were to eat defiling food; ²⁰ to transgress the law in matters either small or great is of equal seriousness,