Holy Scripture
4 Maccabees 7:20
Source: Septuagint
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20This circumstance, then, is by no means an objection, that some who have weak reasoning, are governed by their passions:
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18But they who have meditated upon religion with their whole heart, these alone can master the passions of the flesh:
19they who believe that to God they die not; for, as our forefathers, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, they live to God.
— 4 Maccabees 7:20 —
21since what person, walking religiously by the whole rule of philosophy, and believing in God,
22and knowing that it is a blessed thing to endure all kinds of hardships for virtue, would not, for the sake of religion, master his passion?