4 Maccabees 8:7-9

Revised Standard Version

⁷ Trust me, then, and you will have positions of authority in my government if you will renounce the ancestral tradition of your national life. ⁸ And enjoy your youth by adopting the Greek way of life and by changing your manner of living. ⁹ But if by disobedience you rouse my anger, you will compel me to destroy each and every one of you with dreadful punishments through tortures.