²⁶ For who out of all humanity 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, Hethites, 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 continually serve, been able to rescue you^(A) from the lions?”

¹⁵ “People! Why are you doing these things? We are people also, just like you, and we are proclaiming good news to you, that you turn from these worthless things^(A) to the living God, who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and everything in them.^[a](B)

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