4 Maccabees 1:6 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI) 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. Common English Bible 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. World English Bible - American English Edition - without Strong's Numbers For reasoning does not rule over its own emotions, but over those that are contrary to justice, courage, temperance, and self-control; and yet over these, so as to withstand, without destroying them. World English Bible British Edition For reasoning does not rule over its own emotions, but over those that are contrary to justice, courage, temperance, and self-control; and yet over these, so as to withstand, without destroying them. New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 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. |