16 Shadrach, 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, our God whom we serve is able to ^wdeliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of your hand, O king.¹ 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.”

13 Then they answered and said before the king, “Daniel, ^zwho is one of the exiles from Judah, ^apays no attention to you, O king, or the injunction you have signed, but makes his petition three times a day.”

29 But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must ^oobey God rather than men.