²⁶ For who out of all mankind has heard the voice of the living God speaking from the fire, as we have, and lived?

¹⁰ He said: “You will know that the living God is among you^(A) and that He will certainly dispossess before you the Canaanites, Hittites, Hivites, Perizzites, Girgashites, Amorites, and Jebusites^(B)

²⁶ David spoke to the men who were standing with him: “What will be done for the man who kills that Philistine and removes this disgrace from Israel?^(A) Just who is this uncircumcised Philistine^(B) that he should defy the armies^(C) of the living God?”^(D)

²⁰ When he reached the den, he cried out in anguish to Daniel. “Daniel, servant of the living God,” the king said,^[a] “has your God whom you serve continually been able to rescue you^(A) from the lions?”

¹⁵ “Men! Why are you doing these things? We are men also, with the same nature as you, and we are proclaiming good news to you, that you should turn from these worthless things^(A) to the living God, who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and everything in them.^(B)[a]

¹⁵ But if I should be delayed, I have written so that you will know how people ought to act in God’s household,^(A) which is the church of the living God,^(B) the pillar and foundation of the truth.^(C)