2 Maccabees 6:31

31 And thus this man died, leaving his death as an example of a noble courage and a memorial of virtue not only unto young men, but unto all his nation.

2 Maccabees 6:31 In-Context

29 And those who led him changed the good will they bore him a little before into hatred, because the aforesaid speeches proceeded, as they thought, from a desperate mind.

30 But when he was ready to die with stripes, he groaned and said, "It is manifest unto the Lord, who hath the holy knowledge, that whereas I might have been delivered from death, I now endure sore pains in body by being beaten, but in soul am well content to suffer these things, because I fear Him."

31 And thus this man died, leaving his death as an example of a noble courage and a memorial of virtue not only unto young men, but unto all his nation.