4 Maccabees 9:4

⁴ For we consider your escape to be worse than death. (WEB)

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4 Maccabees 8:9–11

⁹ Have mercy, then, upon your own selves, whom I, although an enemy, am compassionate for your age and attractive appearance. (WEB) ¹⁰ Won’t you consider this: that if you disobey, there will be nothing left for you but to die in torture?” (WEB) ¹¹ When he had said this, he ordere… (WEB)

4 Maccabees 8:19–21

¹⁹ Let’s have compassion upon our age and relent over the years of our mother. (WEB) ²⁰ Let’s bear in mind that we will be dying as rebels. (WEB) ²¹ Divine Justice will pardon us if we fear the king through necessity. (WEB)

4 Maccabees 6:20–22

²⁰ It would be disgraceful if we would live on some short time, and that scorned by all men for cowardice, (WEB) ²¹ and be condemned by the tyrant for cowardice by not contending to the death for our divine law. (WEB) ²² Therefore you, O children of Abraham, die nobly for your reli… (WEB)

Sirach 28:20–22

²⁰ For its yoke is a yoke of iron, and its bands are bands of brass. (WEB) ²¹ Its death is an evil death, and Hades is better than it. (WEB) ²² It will not have rule over godly men. They will not be burned in its flame. (WEB)

Wisdom of Solomon 16:14–16

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2 Esdras 7:66–68

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Wisdom of Solomon 2:19–21

¹⁹ Let’s test him with insult and torture, that we may find out how gentle he is, and test his patience. (WEB) ²⁰ Let’s condemn him to a shameful death, for he will be protected, according to his words.” (WEB) ²¹ Thus they reasoned, and they were led astray; for their wickedness bl… (WEB)

Job 7:14–16

¹⁴ then You frighten me with dreams and terrify me with visions, ¹⁵ so that I would prefer strangling and death over my life in this body. ¹⁶ I loathe my life! I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.

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