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and because of the many pains she suffered with each of them she had sympathy for them;
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yet because of the fear of God she disdained the temporary safety of her children.
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Not only so, but also because of the nobility of her sons and their ready obedience to the law she felt a greater tenderness toward them.
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For they were righteous and self-controlled and brave and magnanimous, and loved their brothers and their mother, so that they obeyed her even to death in keeping the ordinances.
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Nevertheless, though so many factors influenced the mother to suffer with them out of love for her children, in the case of none of them were the various tortures strong enough to pervert her reason.
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.