4 Maccabees 8:25 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁵ Not even the law itself would consent to put us to death for fearing the instruments of torture.

Common English Bible

²⁵ The Law itself would have difficulty giving us the death penalty since we sin out of fear of these instruments.

World English Bible - American English Edition - without Strong's Numbers

²⁵ Why has such angry zeal taken root in us, and such fatal obstinacy approved itself to us, when we might live unmolested by the king?”

World English Bible British Edition

²⁵ Why has such angry zeal taken root in us, and such fatal obstinacy approved itself to us, when we might live unmolested by the king?”

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

²⁵ Not even the law itself would arbitrarily slay us for fearing the instruments of torture.

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