2 Maccabees 7:7
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7 After the first brother had died in this way, they brought forward the second for their sport. They tore off the skin of his head with the hair and asked him, “Will you eat rather than have your body punished limb by limb?”(A)
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2 Maccabees 7:23
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23 Therefore the Creator of the world, who shaped the beginning of humankind and devised the origin of all things, in his mercy gives life and breath back to you again, since you now forget yourselves for the sake of his laws.”(A)
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2 Maccabees 7:26
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26 After much urging on his part, she undertook to persuade her son.
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Daniel 12:2
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2 Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth[a] shall awake, some to everlasting life and some to shame and everlasting contempt.(A)
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- 12.2 Or the land of dust
2 Esdras 14:35
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35 For after death the judgment will come, when we shall live again, and then the names of the righteous shall become manifest, and the deeds of the ungodly shall be disclosed.(A)
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