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4 Maccabees 7:17-19
Revised Standard Version
4 Maccabees 7:17-19
Revised Standard Version
17 Some perhaps might say, “Not every one has full command of his emotions, because not every one has prudent reason.” 18 But as many as attend to religion with a whole heart, these alone are able to control the passions of the flesh, 19 since they believe that they, like our patriarchs Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, do not die to God, but live in God.[a]
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