Given by: Mathathias on his deathbed, charging his sons. Given to: his sons — and every generation entrusted with the faith of those before them.

Under a persecution that made keeping the law a capital crime, Mathathias entrusts to his sons a faith worth dying for — the covenant of their fathers, to be kept at any cost.

Now therefore, O my sons, be ye zealous for the law, and give your lives for the covenant of your fathers.

Mathathias charges his sons to be zealous for God's law and give their lives for the covenant.

1 Maccabees 2:50

Your Spirit

Loves God

Loves Neighbor

Your Body

Moral Behaviour