3 For, although young, and ripe for sexual intercourse, he nullified by reasoning the stimulus of his emotions. (WEB)
4 Maccabees 2:3
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4 Maccabees 1:34–35
34 Hence it is, then, that when craving seafood, birds, four-footed animals, and all kinds of food which are forbidden to us by the law, we withhold ourselves through the mastery of reasoning. (WEB) 35 For the affections of our appetites are resisted by the temperate unde… (WEB)
4 Maccabees 13:2–4
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4 Maccabees 3:1–3
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4 Maccabees 3:16–18
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4 Maccabees 13:6–8
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4 Maccabees 7:17–19
17 But perhaps some might say, “It is not all who conquer emotions, as not all possess wise reasoning.” (WEB) 18 But those who have meditated upon religion with their whole heart, these alone can master the emotions of the flesh: (WEB) 19 they who believe that to God they don’t die… (WEB)
4 Maccabees 7:21–23
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