2 Maccabees 4:15-17

Common English Bible

¹⁵ They ignored their ancestral honors and sought after Greek status symbols instead. ¹⁶ For this reason a dangerous situation engulfed them. Those same people to whom they were devoted and whose way of life they wished to imitate became their enemies and inflicted punishment on them. ¹⁷ To be ungodly in the face of the divine laws isn’t a light matter, as the following events would reveal.