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I also will write them words of encouragement and promise them honor and gifts, that I may have their help." (1 Maccabees 10,24)

When the men of the city saw that the Jews had gained control of the city as they pleased, their courage failed and they cried out to the king with this entreaty, (1 Maccabees 11,49)

Therefore, though we have no need of these things, since we have as encouragement the holy books which are in our hands, (1 Maccabees 12,9)

But they realized that Jonathan had been seized and had perished along with his men, and they encouraged one another and kept marching in close formation, ready for battle. (1 Maccabees 12,50)

he encouraged them, saying to them, "You yourselves know what great things I and my brothers and the house of my father have done for the laws and the sanctuary; you know also the wars and the difficulties which we have seen. (1 Maccabees 13,3)

as men ought to go who have the courage to refuse things that it is not right to taste, even for the natural love of life. (2 Maccabees 6,20)

So in this way he died, leaving in his death an example of nobility and a memorial of courage, not only to the young but to the great body of his nation. (2 Maccabees 6,31)

When he was utterly helpless, the king ordered them to take him to the fire, still breathing, and to fry him in a pan. The smoke from the pan spread widely, but the brothers and their mother encouraged one another to die nobly, saying, (2 Maccabees 7,5)

After him, the third was the victim of their sport. When it was demanded, he quickly put out his tongue and courageously stretched forth his hands, (2 Maccabees 7,10)

The mother was especially admirable and worthy of honorable memory. Though she saw her seven sons perish within a single day, she bore it with good courage because of her hope in the Lord. (2 Maccabees 7,20)

She encouraged each of them in the language of their fathers. Filled with a noble spirit, she fired her woman's reasoning with a man's courage, and said to them, (2 Maccabees 7,21)

With these words he filled them with good courage and made them ready to die for their laws and their country; then he divided his army into four parts. (2 Maccabees 8,21)