1 Maccabees 13:5
“Now therefore be it farre from me, that I should spare mine owne life in any time of trouble: for I am no better then my brethren.”
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1 Maccabees 13:5 Context
3And gaue them exhortation, saying: Yee your selues know, what great things I and my brethren, and my fathers house haue done for the lawes, and the Sanctuarie, the battels also, and troubles which we haue seene, 4By reason whereof all my brethren are slaine for Israels sake, and I am left alone. 5Now therefore be it farre from me, that I should spare mine owne life in any time of trouble: for I am no better then my brethren. 6Doubtlesse I will auenge my nation and the Sanctuarie, & our wiues, and our children: for all the heathen are gathered to destroy vs, of very malice. 7Now as soone as the people heard these words, their spirit reuiued.
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Now therefore be it far from me, that I should spare mine own life in any time of trouble: for I am no better than my brethren.
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