4 Maccabees 5:23-25

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

²³ but it teaches us self-control, so that we master all pleasures and desires, and it also trains us in courage, so that we endure any suffering willingly; ²⁴ it instructs us in justice, so that in all our dealings we act impartially,^[a] and it teaches us piety, so that with proper reverence we worship the only living God.

²⁵ ‘Therefore we do not eat defiling food; for since we believe that the law was established by God, we know that in the nature of things the Creator of the world in giving us the law has shown sympathy towards us.