Daniel 3:18 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁸ But if not, be it known to you, O king, that we will not serve your gods and we will not worship the golden statue that you have set up.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁸ But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁸ But if not, let it be known to you, O king, that we will not serve your gods or worship the golden image which you have set up! [Job 13:15; Acts 4:19, 20.]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁸ But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.

Common English Bible

¹⁸ But if he doesn’t, know this for certain, Your Majesty: we will never serve your gods or worship the gold statue you’ve set up.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ But even if he will not, let it be known to you, O king, that we will not worship your gods, nor adore the gold statue, which you have raised up."

English Standard Version 2016

¹⁸ But if not, be it known to you, O king, that we will not serve your gods or worship the golden image that you have set up.”

Daniel 3:18 Cross References

1 Kings 19:14

He answered, “I have been very zealous for the Lord, the God of hosts, for the Israelites have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I alone am left, and they are seeking my life, to take it away.”

1 Kings 19:18

Yet I will leave seven thousand in Israel, all the knees that have not bowed to Baal, and every mouth that has not kissed him.”

Job 13:15

See, he will kill me; I have no hope; but I will defend my ways to his face.

Proverbs 28:1

The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are as bold as a lion.

Daniel 3:28

Nebuchadnezzar said, “Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who has sent his angel and delivered his servants who trusted in him. They disobeyed the king’s command and yielded up their bodies rather than serve and worship any god except their own God.

Leviticus 19:4

Do not turn to idols or make cast images for yourselves: I am the Lord your God.

Matthew 10:28

Do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul; rather, fear the one who can destroy both soul and body in hell.

Matthew 10:39

Those who find their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake will find it.

Matthew 16:2

He answered them, “When it is evening, you say, ‘It will be fair weather, for the sky is red.’

Acts 4:19

But Peter and John answered them, “Whether it is right in God’s sight to listen to you rather than to God, you must judge;

Hebrews 11:25

choosing rather to share ill-treatment with the people of God than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin.

Joshua 24:15

Now if you are unwilling to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served in the region beyond the River or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living, but as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.”

Revelation 12:11

But they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for they did not cling to life even in the face of death.