Daniel 6:22

Daniel explains that God sent His angel to shut the lions' mouths because he was found innocent. He credits his rescue entirely to God and affirms his blamelessness.

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• Heb 11:33who through faith conquered kingdoms, administered justice, and gained what was promised; who shut the mouths of lions,
• 2 Tim 4:17But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, so that through me the message would be fully proclaimed, and all the Gentiles would hear it. So I was delivered from the mouth of the lion.
• Acts 12:11Then Peter came to himself and said, “Now I know for sure that the Lord has sent His angel and rescued me from Herod’s grasp and from everything the Jewish people were anticipating.”
• Ps 91:11–13For He will command His angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways.
• Acts 24:16In this hope, I strive always to maintain a clear conscience before God and man.
• 1 Jn 3:19–21And by this we will know that we belong to the truth, and will assure our hearts in His presence:
• Ps 84:11For the LORD God is a sun and a shield; the LORD gives grace and glory; He withholds no good thing from those who walk with integrity.
• Dan 3:28Nebuchadnezzar declared, “Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who has sent His angel and delivered His servants who trusted in Him. They violated the king’s command and risked their lives rather than serve or worship any god except their own God.
• Mic 7:7But as for me, I will look to the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.
• Num 20:16and when we cried out to the LORD, He heard our voice, sent an angel, and brought us out of Egypt. Now look, we are in Kadesh, a city on the edge of your territory.
• Ps 31:14But I trust in You, O LORD; I say, “You are my God.”
• 1 Sam 17:37David added, “The LORD, who delivered me from the claws of the lion and the bear, will deliver me from the hand of this Philistine.” “Go,” said Saul, “and may the LORD be with you.”
• Dan 6:23The king was overjoyed and gave orders to lift Daniel out of the den, and when Daniel was lifted out of the den, no wounds whatsoever were found on him, because he had trusted in his God.
• Acts 27:23For just last night an angel of God, whose I am and whom I serve, stood beside me
• Ps 38:21Do not forsake me, O LORD; be not far from me, O my God.
• 2 Chr 32:21and the LORD sent an angel who annihilated every mighty man of valor and every leader and commander in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he withdrew to his own land in disgrace. And when he entered the temple of his god, some of his own sons struck him down with the sword.
• Ps 118:28You are my God, and I will give You thanks. You are my God, and I will exalt You.
• Ps 34:7The angel of the LORD encamps around those who fear Him, and he delivers them.
• Isa 3:10Tell the righteous it will be well with them, for they will enjoy the fruit of their labor.
• Dan 6:20When he reached the den, he cried out in a voice of anguish, “O Daniel, servant of the living God, has your God, whom you serve continually, been able to deliver you from the lions?”
• Isa 63:9In all their distress, He too was afflicted, and the Angel of His Presence saved them. In His love and compassion He redeemed them; He lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.
• John 20:17–18“Do not cling to Me,” Jesus said, “for I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go and tell My brothers, ‘I am ascending to My Father and your Father, to My God and your God.’”
• Ps 18:19–24He brought me out into the open; He rescued me because He delighted in me.
• 2 Sam 22:7In my distress I called upon the LORD; I cried out to my God. And from His temple He heard my voice, and my cry for help reached His ears.
• Ps 7:1–4A Shiggaion of David, which he sang to the LORD concerning the words of Cush, a Benjamite. O LORD my God, I take refuge in You; save me and deliver me from all my pursuers,
• Gen 40:15For I was kidnapped from the land of the Hebrews, and even here I have done nothing for which they should have put me in this dungeon.”
• 1 Sam 26:18And he continued, “Why is my lord pursuing his servant? What have I done? What evil is in my hand?
• Ps 26:6I wash my hands in innocence that I may go about Your altar, O LORD,
• 2 Cor 1:12And this is our boast: Our conscience testifies that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially in relation to you, in the holiness and sincerity that are from God—not in worldly wisdom, but in the grace of God.
• 1 Sam 24:9–11and said to Saul, “Why do you listen to the words of men who say, ‘Look, David intends to harm you’?
• Matt 27:46About the ninth hour Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” which means, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?”
• Acts 25:8–11Then Paul made his defense: “I have committed no offense against the law of the Jews or against the temple or against Caesar.”

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