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 141:4Don’t incline my heart to any evil thing, to practice deeds of wickedness with men who work iniquity. Don’t let me eat of their delicacies.
• Lev 11:45–47For I am Yahweh who brought you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God. You shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.
• Ezek 4:13–14Yahweh said, “Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their bread unclean, among the nations where I will drive them.”
• 1 Cor 10:18–21Consider Israel according to the flesh. Don’t those who eat the sacrifices participate in the altar?
• 1 Cor 7:37But he who stands steadfast in his heart, having no urgency, but has power over his own will, and has determined in his own heart to keep his own virgin, does well.
• Ps 119:115Depart from me, you evildoers, that I may keep the commandments of my God.
• Hos 9:3–4They won’t dwell in Yahweh’s land; but Ephraim will return to Egypt, and they will eat unclean food in Assyria.
• 1 Cor 8:7–10However, that knowledge isn’t in all men. But some, with consciousness of the idol until now, eat as of a thing sacrificed to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.
• Ps 119:106I have sworn, and have confirmed it, that I will obey your righteous ordinances.
• Rom 14:15–17Yet if because of food your brother is grieved, you walk no longer in love. Don’t destroy with your food him for whom Christ died.
• Dan 1:5The king appointed for them a daily portion of the king’s dainties, and of the wine which he drank, and that they should be nourished three years; that at its end they should stand before the king.
• 1 Cor 10:28–31But if anyone says to you, “This was offered to idols,” don’t eat it for the sake of the one who told you, and for the sake of conscience. For “the earth is the Lord’s, and all its fullness.”
• Acts 11:23who, when he had come, and had seen the grace of God, was glad. He exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they should remain near to the Lord.
• 2 Cor 9:7Let each man give according as he has determined in his heart; not grudgingly, or under compulsion; for God loves a cheerful giver.
• Acts 10:14–16But Peter said, “Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean.”
• Deut 32:38which ate the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drink offering? Let them rise up and help you! Let them be your protection.
• Ps 106:28They joined themselves also to Baal Peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.
• 1 Kgs 5:5Behold, I intend to build a house for the name of Yahweh my God, as Yahweh spoke to David my father, saying, ‘Your son, whom I will set on your throne in your place shall build the house for my name.’
• Ruth 1:17–18Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May Yahweh do so to me, and more also, if anything but death parts you and me.”

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