IV Maccabees 10:13

13 Do not thou share the madness of thy brethren: but give regard to the king, and save thyself.

IV Maccabees 10:13 In-Context

11 But thou, for thine impiety and blood-shedding, shalt endure indissoluble torments.

12 And thus having died worthily of his brethren, they dragged forward the fourth, saying,

13 Do not thou share the madness of thy brethren: but give regard to the king, and save thyself.

14 But he said to them, You have not a fire so scorching as to make me play the coward.

15 By the blessed death of my brethren, and the eternal punishment of the tyrant, and the glorious life of the pious, I will not repudiate the noble brotherhood.