4 Maccabees 1:6
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CEB
The mind doesn’t have control over such things, but it controls the emotions and desires that resist justice, courage, and self-control. And it does this so that we won’t surrender to the emotions, not in order to destroy them.
NRSVA
For reason does not rule its own emotions, but those that are opposed to justice, courage, and self-control; and it is not for the purpose of destroying them, but so that one may not give way to them.
NRSVUE
For reason does not rule its own passions but those that are opposed to justice, courage, and self-control, and it is not for the purpose of destroying them but so that one may not give way to them.
RSV
For reason does not rule its own emotions, but those that are opposed to justice, courage, and self-control; and it is not for the purpose of destroying them, but so that one may not give way to them.
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