2 Maccabees 4:15-17

Good News Translation

¹⁵ They did not care about anything their ancestors had valued; they prized only Greek honors. ¹⁶ And this turned out to be the source of all their troubles, for the very people whose ways they admired and whose customs they tried to imitate became their enemies and oppressed them. ¹⁷ It is a serious thing to disregard God's Law, as you will see from the following events.