4 Maccabees 11:5

13 translations of 23 that include the deuterocanon

ASV Byzantine Text

Doth it seem evil to thee that we worship the Founder of all things, and live according to his surpassing law?

Brenton English Septuagint

Does it seem evil to thee that we worship the Founder of all things, and live according to his surpassing law?

LXX2012 U. S. English

Does it seem evil to you that we worship the Founder of all things, and live according to his surpassing law?

British English Septuagint 2012

Does it seem evil to you that we worship the Founder of all things, and live according to his surpassing law?

Updated Brenton English Septuagint

Does it seem evil to thee that we worship the Founder of all things, and live according to his surpassing law?

World English Bible British Edition with Deuterocanon

Does it seem evil to you that we worship the Founder of all things, and live according to his surpassing law?

World English Bible Classic

Does it seem evil to you that we worship the Founder of all things, and live according to his surpassing law?

World English Bible Updated

Does it seem evil to you that we worship the Founder of all things, and live according to his surpassing law?

Matupi Chin Standard Bible 2019

Is it because we revere the Creator of all things and live according to his virtuous law?

French Free Holy Bible for the World

Te semble-t-il mauvais que nous adorions le Fondateur de toutes choses, et que nous vivions selon sa loi surpassée ?

Brenton Septuagint

Ἢ κακόν σοι δοκεῖ, ὅτι τὸν πάντων κτιστὴν εὐσεβοῦμεν, καὶ κατὰ τὸν ἐνάρετον αὐτοῦ ζῶμεν νόμον;

Spanish BLL

¿Acaso te parece mal que adoremos al Creador de todo, y que vivamos de acuerdo a su grandiosa ley?

Spanish Free Bible for the World

¿Te parece mal que adoremos al Fundador de todas las cosas y vivamos según su ley excelsa?

When was this written?

The traditions broadly agree on this one.

Broad agreement: 20 AD–100 AD Anonymous
A philosophical treatise in Greek, written under Roman rule.

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Who ruled Rome

Emperors reigning while this book is dated. Where the traditions differ, they often fall under different rulers.

Broad agreement

Tiberius 14 AD–37 AD
Emperor through the ministry of Jesus. Pontius Pilate governed Judea under him.
Caligula 37 AD–41 AD
A short and erratic reign; his order to place a statue of himself in the Jerusalem temple was abandoned only at his death.
Claudius 41 AD–54 AD
Expelled Jews from Rome, which is why Priscilla and Aquila were in Corinth when Paul met them.
Nero 54 AD–68 AD
The fire of Rome in 64 was followed by the first state persecution of Christians. Paul and Peter are traditionally martyred in this reign.
Galba, Otho and Vitellius 68 AD–69 AD
The year of four emperors: civil war across the empire after Nero's death.
Vespasian 69 AD–79 AD
Took power at the end of the civil war. His son Titus completed the siege of Jerusalem in 70.
Titus 79 AD–81 AD
Commanded the army that destroyed the Jerusalem temple before becoming emperor.
Domitian 81 AD–96 AD
An autocratic reign under which Revelation is traditionally placed, on the testimony of Irenaeus.
Nerva 96 AD–98 AD
A brief reign that eased the pressures of Domitian's last years.
Trajan 98 AD–117 AD
His correspondence with Pliny the Younger is the earliest surviving statement of official Roman policy toward Christians.

Elsewhere in the world

Events overlapping when this passage is dated (20 AD–100 AD).

1070 BC–350 AD The kingdom of Kush Africa
A Nubian power on the upper Nile that ruled Egypt itself as its twenty-fifth dynasty.
500 BC–500 AD The Nazca lines South America
Vast figures drawn on the Peruvian desert, visible only from the surrounding hills.
206 BC–220 AD The Han dynasty China
Four centuries of Chinese rule contemporary with the whole of Roman expansion.
150 BC–100 AD Roman concrete and the aqueducts Rome
Hydraulic concrete let Rome build harbours, domes and aqueducts that still stand.
100 BC–550 AD Teotihuacan Mesoamerica
A city of perhaps a hundred thousand people in the valley of Mexico, with monumental pyramids.
43 AD–84 AD Rome conquers Britain Britain
Claudius invaded and the province was gradually extended to the Scottish lowlands.
66 AD–73 AD First Jewish–Roman war Levant
Revolt against Rome ending in the destruction of the Jerusalem temple in AD 70 — the decisive rupture in Second Temple Judaism.
27 BC–100 AD Roman road and sea network matures Rome
Consolidated roads, harbours and suppressed piracy made long-distance travel unusually safe, a precondition for the rapid spread of early Christian communities.