Dan 3:16-28, Mat 7:22-23, Joh 13:37, 15:13, Act 21:13, Phili 1:20-21, 2:3 | ESV | STEP | Shadrach , Meshach , and Abednego answered and said to the king , O Nebuchadnezzar , we have no need to answer you in this matter .

16 ^aShadrach, Meshach, and Abednego answered and said to the king, “O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter. 17 If this be so, ^bour God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of your hand, O king. ^{▼▼Or If our God whom we serve is able to deliver us, he will deliver us from the burning fiery furnace and out of your hand, O king.} 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.”

19 Then Nebuchadnezzar was ^dfilled with fury, and the expression of his face ^ewas changed against ^fShadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. He ordered the furnace heated seven times more than it was usually heated. 20 And he ordered some of the mighty men of his army ^gto bind ^hShadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, and to cast them into the burning fiery furnace. 21 Then these men were ⁱbound in their cloaks, their tunics, ^{▼▼The meaning of the Aramaic words rendered cloaks and tunics is uncertain; also verse 27} their hats, and their other garments, and they were thrown into the burning fiery furnace. 22 Because the king’s order was ^kurgent and the furnace overheated, the flame of the fire killed those men who took up ^lShadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. 23 And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, fell ^mbound into the burning fiery furnace.

24 Then King Nebuchadnezzar was ⁿastonished and rose up ^oin haste. He declared to his ^pcounselors, “Did we not cast three men ^qbound into the fire?” They answered and said to the king, “True, O king.” 25 He answered and said, “But I see four men unbound, ^rwalking in the midst of the fire, and they ^sare not hurt; and the appearance of the fourth is like ^ta son of the gods.”

26 Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the door of the burning fiery furnace; he declared, ^u“Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, servants of the ^vMost High God, come out, and come here!” Then ^wShadrach, Meshach, and Abednego came out from the fire. 27 And the ^xsatraps, the prefects, the governors, and ^ythe king’s counselors gathered together and saw that ^zthe fire had not had any power over the bodies of those men. The hair of their heads was not singed, their ^aacloaks were not harmed, and no smell of fire had come upon them. 28 Nebuchadnezzar answered and said, “Blessed be the God of ^abShadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who ^achas sent his angel and ^addelivered his servants, who ^aetrusted in him, and set aside ^{▼▼Aramaic and changed} the king’s command, and yielded up their bodies rather than ^agserve and worship any god except their own God.

Matthew 7:22-23

22 ^ahOn that day ^aimany will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not ^ajprophesy in your name, and cast out demons ^akin your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ 23 ^alAnd then will I declare to them, ‘I ^amnever knew you; ^andepart from me, ^aoyou workers of lawlessness.’

John 13:37

37 ^apPeter said to him, “Lord, why can I not follow you now? I will lay down my life for you.”

John 15:13

13 ^aqGreater love has no one than this, ^arthat someone lay down his life for his friends.

Acts 21:13

13 Then Paul answered, ^as“What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For ^atI am ready not only to be imprisoned but even to die in Jerusalem ^aufor the name of the Lord Jesus.”

Philippians 1:20-21

20 as it is my eager expectation and hope ^avthat I will not be at all ashamed, but that with full ^awcourage now as always Christ ^axwill be honored in my body, ^aywhether by life or by death. 21 For to me ^azto live is Christ, and to die is gain.

Philippians 2:3

3 Do nothing from ^baselfish ambition or ^bbconceit, but in ^bchumility count others more significant than yourselves.