Pro 19:12, 20:2, Dan 3:13-25, Luk 12:4-5 | ESV | STEP | A king’s wrath is like the growling of a lion , but his favor is like dew on the grass .

13 Then Nebuchadnezzar ^fin furious rage commanded that ^gShadrach, Meshach, and Abednego be brought. So they brought these men before the king. 14 Nebuchadnezzar answered and said to them, “Is it true, O Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, that you do not serve my gods or worship the golden image that I have set up? 15 Now if you are ready when ^hyou hear the sound of the horn, pipe, lyre, trigon, harp, bagpipe, and every kind of music, to fall down and worship the image that I have made, well and good. ^{▼▼Aramaic lacks well and good} But if you do not worship, ^jyou shall immediately be cast into a burning fiery furnace. And ^kwho is the god who will deliver you out of my hands?”

16 ^lShadrach, 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, ^mour 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 ^ofilled with fury, and the expression of his face ^pwas changed against ^qShadrach, 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 ^rto bind ^sShadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, and to cast them into the burning fiery furnace. 21 Then these men were ^tbound 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 ^vurgent and the furnace overheated, the flame of the fire killed those men who took up ^wShadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. 23 And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, fell ^xbound into the burning fiery furnace.

24 Then King Nebuchadnezzar was ^yastonished and rose up ^zin haste. He declared to his ^aacounselors, “Did we not cast three men ^abbound into the fire?” They answered and said to the king, “True, O king.” 25 He answered and said, “But I see four men unbound, ^acwalking in the midst of the fire, and they ^adare not hurt; and the appearance of the fourth is like ^aea son of the gods.”

Luke 12:4-5

Have No Fear

4 “I tell you, my friends, ^afdo not fear those who kill the body, and after that have nothing more that they can do. 5 But I will warn you whom to fear: fear him ^agwho, after he has killed, has authority to cast into hell. ^{▼▼Greek Gehenna} Yes, I tell you, fear him!