4 Maccabees 9:16-18

Common English Bible

¹⁶ The guards said, “Say that you will eat pork so that you can be set free from these tortures!”

¹⁷ But he replied, “You dirty thugs! The wheel is not stretched tight enough to choke off my mind! Keep cutting my limbs, burning my flesh, and twisting my joints. ¹⁸ Through all of this suffering, I will persuade you that the Israelites alone can’t be defeated when it comes to moral character!”