Daniel 1:8

Daniel resolves not to defile himself with the king's food and wine, and tactfully seeks an alternative. His conviction shows faith expressed with both courage and wisdom.

Cross-references · 19

• Ps 141:4Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practise wicked works with men that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their dainties.
• Lev 11:45–47For I am the LORD that bringeth you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: ye shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.
• Ezek 4:13–14And the LORD said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, whither I will drive them.
• 1 Cor 10:18–21Behold Israel after the flesh: are not they which eat of the sacrifices partakers of the altar?
• 1 Cor 7:37Nevertheless he that standeth stedfast in his heart, having no necessity, but hath power over his own will, and hath so decreed in his heart that he will keep his virgin, doeth well.
• Ps 119:115Depart from me, ye evildoers: for I will keep the commandments of my God.
• Hos 9:3–4They shall not dwell in the LORD’s land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria.
• 1 Cor 8:7–10Howbeit there is not in every man that knowledge: for some with conscience of the idol unto this hour eat it as a thing offered unto an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled.
• Ps 119:106I have sworn, and I will perform it, that I will keep thy righteous judgments.
• Rom 14:15–17But if thy brother be grieved with thy meat, now walkest thou not charitably. Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom Christ died.
• Dan 1:5And the king appointed them a daily provision of the king’s meat, and of the wine which he drank: so nourishing them three years, that at the end thereof they might stand before the king.
• 1 Cor 10:28–31But if any man say unto you, This is offered in sacrifice unto idols, eat not for his sake that shewed it, and for conscience sake: for the earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof:
• Acts 11:23Who, when he came, and had seen the grace of God, was glad, and exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they would cleave unto the Lord.
• 2 Cor 9:7Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.
• Acts 10:14–16But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten any thing that is common or unclean.
• Deut 32:38Which did eat the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drink offerings? let them rise up and help you, and be your protection.
• Ps 106:28They joined themselves also unto Baalpeor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.
• 1 Kgs 5:5And, behold, I purpose to build an house unto the name of the LORD my God, as the LORD spake unto David my father, saying, Thy son, whom I will set upon thy throne in thy room, he shall build an house unto my name.
• Ruth 1:17–18Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried: the LORD do so to me, and more also, if ought but death part thee and me.

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