IV Maccabees 8:24

24 The law itself is not forward to put us to death, if we dread torture.

IV Maccabees 8:24 In-Context

22 Why withdraw ourselves from a most sweet life, and deprive ourselves of this pleasant world?

23 Let us not oppose necessity, nor seek vain-glory by our own excruciation.

24 The law itself is not forward to put us to death, if we dread torture.

25 Whence has such angry zeal taken root in us, and such fatal obstinacy approved itself to us, when we might live unmolested by the king?

26 But nothing of this kind did the young men say or think when about to be tortured.