2 Maccabees 8:15

15 if not for their own sake, then for the sake of the covenants made with their ancestors, and because he had called them by his holy and glorious name.

2 Maccabees 8:15 In-Context

13 those who were cowardly and distrustful of God's justice ran off and got away.

14 Others sold all their remaining property, and at the same time implored the Lord to rescue those who had been sold by the ungodly Nicanor before he ever met them,

15 if not for their own sake, then for the sake of the covenants made with their ancestors, and because he had called them by his holy and glorious name.

16 But Maccabeus gathered his forces together, to the number six thousand, and exhorted them not to be frightened by the enemy and not to fear the great multitude of Gentiles who were wickedly coming against them, but to fight nobly,

17 keeping before their eyes the lawless outrage that the Gentiles had committed against the holy place, and the torture of the derided city, and besides, the overthrow of their ancestral way of life.