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Daniel: A Jewish Captive, Also Called Belteshazzar: Courage and Fidelity of Daniel 4:27

Therefore, may my advice be pleasing to you, O king. Break away from your sins by doing what is right, and from your iniquities by showing mercy to the oppressed. Perhaps there will be an extension of your prosperity.”

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Daniel: A Jewish Captive, Also Called Belteshazzar: Courage and Fidelity of Daniel 5:17–23

In response, Daniel said to the king, “You may keep your gifts for yourself and give your rewards to someone else. Nevertheless, I will read the inscription for the king and interpret it for him. / As for you, O king, the Most High God gave your father Nebuchadnezzar sovereignty and greatness, glory and honor. / Because of the greatness that He bestowed on him, the people of every nation and language trembled in fear before him. He killed whom he wished and kept alive whom he wished; he exalted whom he wished and humbled whom he wished.

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Daniel: A Jewish Captive, Also Called Belteshazzar: Courage and Fidelity of Daniel 6:10–23

Now when Daniel learned that the document had been signed, he went into his house, where the windows of his upper room opened toward Jerusalem, and three times a day he got down on his knees, prayed, and gave thanks to his God, just as he had done before. / Then these men went as a group and found Daniel petitioning and imploring his God. / So they approached the king and asked about his royal decree: “Did you not sign a decree that for thirty days any man who petitions any god or man except you, O king, will be thrown into the den of lions?” The king replied, “According to the law of the Medes and Persians the order stands, and it cannot be repealed.”

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Emotional Infidelity Hebrews 13:4

Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

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Emotional Infidelity Romans 12:2

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God.

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Emotional Infidelity Mark 10:11, 12

So He told them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery against her. / And if a woman divorces her husband and marries another man, she commits adultery.”

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Fidelity Hebrews 13:4

Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

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Fidelity Luke 16:18

Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery, and he who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

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Fidelity Titus 2:10

not stealing from them, but showing all good faith, so that in every respect they will adorn the teaching about God our Savior.

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Fidelity 1 Corinthians 6:18

Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a man can commit is outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body.

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Fidelity John 15:13

Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.

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Fidelity 1 Corinthians 4:2

Now it is required of stewards that they be found faithful.

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Fidelity Luke 1:37

For no word from God will ever fail.”

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Fidelity Joshua 24:15

But if it is unpleasing in your sight to serve the LORD, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living. As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD!”

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Fidelity Galatians 5:22

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

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Fidelity John 3:16

For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.

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Heart: Renewed: Fidelity Nehemiah 9:8

You found his heart faithful before You, and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites and Hittites, of the Amorites and Perizzites, of the Jebusites and Girgashites—to give it to his descendants. You have kept Your promise, because You are righteous.

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Infidelity: General Scriptures Concerning Genesis 3:1, 4

Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field that the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden?’” / “You will not surely die,” the serpent told her.

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Infidelity: General Scriptures Concerning Exodus 5:2

But Pharaoh replied, “Who is the LORD that I should obey His voice and let Israel go? I do not know the LORD, and I will not let Israel go.”

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Infidelity: General Scriptures Concerning Exodus 14:11, 12

They said to Moses, “Was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you brought us into the wilderness to die? What have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt? / Did we not say to you in Egypt, ‘Leave us alone so that we may serve the Egyptians’? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.”

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Infidelity: General Scriptures Concerning Exodus 16:3, 7

“If only we had died by the LORD’s hand in the land of Egypt!” they said. “There we sat by pots of meat and ate our fill of bread, but you have brought us into this desert to starve this whole assembly to death!” / and in the morning you will see the LORD’s glory, because He has heard your grumbling against Him. For who are we that you should grumble against us?”

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Infidelity: General Scriptures Concerning Exodus 17:7

He named the place Massah and Meribah because the Israelites quarreled, and because they tested the LORD, saying, “Is the LORD among us or not?”

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Infidelity: General Scriptures Concerning Numbers 14:27–34

“How long will this wicked congregation grumble against Me? I have heard the complaints that the Israelites are making against Me. / So tell them: As surely as I live, declares the LORD, I will do to you exactly as I heard you say. / Your bodies will fall in this wilderness—all who were numbered in the census, everyone twenty years of age or older—because you have grumbled against Me.

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Infidelity: General Scriptures Concerning Numbers 15:30, 31

But the person who sins defiantly, whether a native or foreigner, blasphemes the LORD. That person shall be cut off from among his people. / He shall certainly be cut off, because he has despised the word of the LORD and broken His commandment; his guilt remains on him.”

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Infidelity: General Scriptures Concerning Numbers 16:41

The next day the whole congregation of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron, saying, “You have killed the LORD’s people!”

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Infidelity: General Scriptures Concerning Numbers 21:5

and spoke against God and against Moses: “Why have you led us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? There is no bread or water, and we detest this wretched food!”

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Infidelity: General Scriptures Concerning Deuteronomy 29:19–21

because when such a person hears the words of this oath, he invokes a blessing on himself, saying, ‘I will have peace, even though I walk in the stubbornness of my own heart.’ This will bring disaster on the watered land as well as the dry. / The LORD will never be willing to forgive him. Instead, His anger and jealousy will burn against that man, and every curse written in this book will fall upon him. The LORD will blot out his name from under heaven / and single him out from all the tribes of Israel for disaster, according to all the curses of the covenant written in this Book of the Law.

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Infidelity: General Scriptures Concerning Deuteronomy 32:15

But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked—becoming fat, bloated, and gorged. He abandoned the God who made him and scorned the Rock of his salvation.

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Infidelity: General Scriptures Concerning 1 Kings 20:28

Then the man of God approached the king of Israel and said, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Because the Arameans think the LORD is a god of the hills and not of the valleys, I will deliver all this great army into your hand. Then you will know that I am the LORD.’”

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Infidelity: General Scriptures Concerning 1 Kings 22:24

Then Zedekiah son of Chenaanah went up, struck Micaiah in the face, and demanded, “Which way did the Spirit of the LORD go when He departed from me to speak with you?”

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Infidelity: General Scriptures Concerning 2 Kings 2:23, 24

From there, Elisha went up to Bethel, and as he was walking up the road, a group of boys came out of the city and jeered at him, chanting, “Go up, you baldhead! Go up, you baldhead!” / Then he turned around, looked at them, and called down a curse on them in the name of the LORD. Suddenly two female bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the boys.

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Infidelity: General Scriptures Concerning 2 Chronicles 30:6, 10

So the couriers went throughout Israel and Judah with letters from the king and his officials, which read: “Children of Israel, return to the LORD, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, so that He may return to those of you who remain, who have escaped the grasp of the kings of Assyria. / And the couriers traveled from city to city through the land of Ephraim and Manasseh as far as Zebulun; but the people scorned and mocked them.

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Infidelity: General Scriptures Concerning 2 Chronicles 32:15–19

So now, do not let Hezekiah deceive you, and do not let him mislead you like this. Do not believe him, for no god of any nation or kingdom has been able to deliver his people from my hand or from the hand of my fathers. How much less will your God deliver you from my hand!” / And the servants of Sennacherib spoke further against the LORD God and against His servant Hezekiah. / He also wrote letters mocking the LORD, the God of Israel, and saying against Him: “Just as the gods of the nations did not deliver their people from my hand, so the God of Hezekiah will not deliver His people from my hand.”

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Infidelity: General Scriptures Concerning 2 Chronicles 36:16

But they mocked the messengers of God, despising His words and scoffing at His prophets, until the wrath of the LORD against His people was stirred up beyond remedy.

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Infidelity: General Scriptures Concerning Job 15:25, 26

For he has stretched out his hand against God and has vaunted himself against the Almighty, / rushing headlong at Him with a thick, studded shield.

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Infidelity: General Scriptures Concerning Job 21:14, 15

Yet they say to God: ‘Leave us alone! For we have no desire to know Your ways. / Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him, and what would we gain if we pray to Him?’

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Infidelity: General Scriptures Concerning Job 22:13, 14, 17

Yet you say: ‘What does God know? Does He judge through thick darkness? / Thick clouds veil Him so He does not see us as He traverses the vault of heaven.’ / They said to God, ‘Depart from us. What can the Almighty do to us?’

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Infidelity: General Scriptures Concerning Job 34:7, 9, 17–19, 33

What man is like Job, who drinks up derision like water? / For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing that he should delight in God.’ / Could one who hates justice govern? Will you condemn the just and mighty One,

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Infidelity: General Scriptures Concerning Job 35:3

For you ask, ‘What does it profit me, and what benefit do I gain apart from sin?’

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Infidelity: General Scriptures Concerning Job 36:23

Who has appointed His way for Him, or told Him, ‘You have done wrong’?

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Infidelity: General Scriptures Concerning Psalm 1:1

Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, or set foot on the path of sinners, or sit in the seat of mockers.

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Infidelity: General Scriptures Concerning Psalm 3:2

Many say of me, “God will not deliver him.” Selah

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Infidelity: General Scriptures Concerning Psalm 4:6

Many ask, “Who can show us the good?” Shine the light of Your face upon us, O LORD.

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Infidelity: General Scriptures Concerning Psalm 10:11, 13

He says to himself, “God has forgotten; He hides His face and never sees.” / Why has the wicked man renounced God? He says to himself, “You will never call me to account.”

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Infidelity: General Scriptures Concerning Psalm 12:3, 4

May the LORD cut off all flattering lips and every boastful tongue. / They say, “With our tongues we will prevail. We own our lips—who can be our master?”

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Infidelity: General Scriptures Concerning Psalm 14:1, 6

For the choirmaster. Of David. The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt; their acts are vile. There is no one who does good. / You sinners frustrate the plans of the oppressed, yet the LORD is their shelter.

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Infidelity: General Scriptures Concerning Psalm 42:3

My tears have been my food both day and night, while men ask me all day long, “Where is your God?”

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Infidelity: General Scriptures Concerning Psalm 50:21

You have done these things, and I kept silent; you thought I was just like you. But now I rebuke you and accuse you to your face.

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Infidelity: General Scriptures Concerning Psalm 53:1

For the choirmaster. According to Mahalath. A Maskil of David. The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt; their ways are vile. There is no one who does good.

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Infidelity: General Scriptures Concerning Psalm 59:7

See what they spew from their mouths—sharp words from their lips: “For who can hear us?”

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Infidelity: General Scriptures Concerning Psalm 64:5

They hold fast to their evil purpose; they speak of hiding their snares. “Who will see them?” they say.

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Infidelity: General Scriptures Concerning Psalm 73:11

The wicked say, “How can God know? Does the Most High have knowledge?”

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Infidelity: General Scriptures Concerning Psalm 78:19–22

They spoke against God, saying, “Can God really prepare a table in the wilderness? / When He struck the rock, water gushed out and torrents raged. But can He also give bread or supply His people with meat?” / Therefore the LORD heard and was filled with wrath; so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and His anger flared against Israel,

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Infidelity: General Scriptures Concerning Psalm 94:7–9

They say, “The LORD does not see; the God of Jacob pays no heed.” / Take notice, O senseless among the people! O fools, when will you be wise? / He who affixed the ear, can He not hear? He who formed the eye, can He not see?

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Infidelity: General Scriptures Concerning Psalm 106:24, 25

They despised the pleasant land; they did not believe His promise. / They grumbled in their tents and did not listen to the voice of the LORD.

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Infidelity: General Scriptures Concerning Psalm 107:11, 12

because they rebelled against the words of God and despised the counsel of the Most High. / He humbled their hearts with hard labor; they stumbled, and there was no one to help.

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Infidelity: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 1:22

“How long, O simple ones, will you love your simple ways? How long will scoffers delight in their scorn and fools hate knowledge?

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Infidelity: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 3:34

He mocks the mockers, but gives grace to the humble.

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Infidelity: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 9:12

If you are wise, you are wise to your own advantage; but if you scoff, you alone will bear the consequences.

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Infidelity: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 14:6

A mocker seeks wisdom and finds none, but knowledge comes easily to the discerning.

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Infidelity: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 19:29

Judgments are prepared for mockers, and beatings for the backs of fools.

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Infidelity: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 24:9

A foolish scheme is sin, and a mocker is detestable to men.

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Infidelity: General Scriptures Concerning Isaiah 3:8

For Jerusalem has stumbled and Judah has fallen because they spoke and acted against the LORD, defying His glorious presence.

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Infidelity: General Scriptures Concerning Isaiah 5:18, 19, 24, 25

Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of deceit and pull sin along with cart ropes, / to those who say, “Let Him hurry and hasten His work so that we may see it! Let the plan of the Holy One of Israel come so that we may know it!” / Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes the straw, and as dry grass shrivels in the flame, so their roots will decay and their blossoms will blow away like dust; for they have rejected the instruction of the LORD of Hosts and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

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Infidelity: General Scriptures Concerning Isaiah 10:15

Does an axe raise itself above the one who swings it? Does a saw boast over him who saws with it? It would be like a rod waving the one who lifts it, or a staff lifting him who is not wood!

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Infidelity: General Scriptures Concerning Isaiah 28:9, 10, 14, 15, 17–22

Whom is He trying to teach? To whom is He explaining His message? To infants just weaned from milk? To babies removed from the breast? / For they hear: “Order on order, order on order, line on line, line on line; a little here, a little there.” / Therefore hear the word of the LORD, O scoffers who rule this people in Jerusalem.

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Infidelity: General Scriptures Concerning Isaiah 29:15, 16, 20

Woe to those who dig deep to hide their plans from the LORD. In darkness they do their works and say, “Who sees us, and who will know?” / You have turned things upside down, as if the potter were regarded as clay. Shall what is formed say to him who formed it, “He did not make me”? Can the pottery say of the potter, “He has no understanding”? / For the ruthless will vanish, the mockers will disappear, and all who look for evil will be cut down—

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Infidelity: General Scriptures Concerning Isaiah 45:9, 10

Woe to him who quarrels with his Maker—one clay pot among many. Does the clay ask the potter, ‘What are you making?’ Does your work say, ‘He has no hands’? / Woe to him who says to his father, ‘What have you begotten?’ or to his mother, ‘What have you brought forth?’”

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Infidelity: General Scriptures Concerning Isaiah 47:10, 11

You were secure in your wickedness; you said, ‘No one sees me.’ Your wisdom and knowledge led you astray; you told yourself, ‘I am, and there is none besides me.’ / But disaster will come upon you; you will not know how to charm it away. A calamity will befall you that you will be unable to ward off. Devastation will happen to you suddenly and unexpectedly.

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Infidelity: General Scriptures Concerning Isaiah 57:4–11

Whom are you mocking? At whom do you snarl and stick out your tongue? Are you not children of transgression, offspring of deceit, / who burn with lust among the oaks, under every luxuriant tree, who slaughter your children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks? / Your portion is among the smooth stones of the valley; indeed, they are your lot. Even to them you have poured out a drink offering and offered a grain offering. Should I relent because of these?

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Infidelity: General Scriptures Concerning Jeremiah 2:31

You people of this generation, consider the word of the LORD: “Have I been a wilderness to Israel or a land of dense darkness? Why do My people say, ‘We are free to roam; we will come to You no more’?

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Infidelity: General Scriptures Concerning Jeremiah 5:12, 14

They have lied about the LORD and said: “He will not do anything; harm will not come to us; we will not see sword or famine. / Therefore this is what the LORD God of Hosts says: “Because you have spoken this word, I will make My words a fire in your mouth and this people the wood it consumes.

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Infidelity: General Scriptures Concerning Jeremiah 17:15

Behold, they keep saying to me, “Where is the word of the LORD? Let it come now!”

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Infidelity: General Scriptures Concerning Jeremiah 43:2

Azariah son of Hoshaiah, Johanan son of Kareah, and all the arrogant men said to Jeremiah, “You are lying! The LORD our God has not sent you to say, ‘You must not go to Egypt to reside there.’

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Infidelity: General Scriptures Concerning Jeremiah 48:26, 42

“Make him drunk, because he has magnified himself against the LORD; so Moab will wallow in his own vomit, and he will also become a laughingstock. / Moab will be destroyed as a nation because he vaunted himself against the LORD.

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Infidelity: General Scriptures Concerning Jeremiah 50:24, 29

I laid a snare for you, O Babylon, and you were caught before you knew it. You were found and captured because you challenged the LORD. / Summon the archers against Babylon, all who string the bow. Encamp all around her; let no one escape. Repay her according to her deeds; do to her as she has done. For she has defied the LORD, the Holy One of Israel.

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Infidelity: General Scriptures Concerning Lamentations 1:7

In the days of her affliction and wandering Jerusalem remembers all the treasures that were hers in days of old. When her people fell into enemy hands she received no help. Her enemies looked upon her, laughing at her downfall.

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Infidelity: General Scriptures Concerning Ezekiel 8:12

“Son of man,” He said to me, “do you see what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the darkness, each at the shrine of his own idol? For they are saying, ‘The LORD does not see us; the LORD has forsaken the land.’”

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Infidelity: General Scriptures Concerning Ezekiel 9:9, 10

He replied, “The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great. The land is full of bloodshed, and the city is full of perversity. For they say, ‘The LORD has forsaken the land; the LORD does not see.’ / But as for Me, I will not look on them with pity, nor will I spare them. I will bring their deeds down upon their own heads.”

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Infidelity: General Scriptures Concerning Ezekiel 11:3

They are saying, ‘Is not the time near to build houses? The city is the cooking pot, and we are the meat.’

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Infidelity: General Scriptures Concerning Ezekiel 12:22

“Son of man, what is this proverb that you have in the land of Israel: ‘The days go by, and every vision fails’?

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Infidelity: General Scriptures Concerning Ezekiel 18:2, 29

“What do you people mean by quoting this proverb about the land of Israel: ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the teeth of the children are set on edge’? / Yet the house of Israel says, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ Are My ways unjust, O house of Israel? Is it not your ways that are unjust?

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Infidelity: General Scriptures Concerning Ezekiel 20:49

Then I said, “Ah, Lord GOD, they are saying of me, ‘Is he not just telling parables?’”

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Infidelity: General Scriptures Concerning Ezekiel 33:17, 20, 30

Yet your people say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ But it is their way that is not just. / Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ But I will judge each of you according to his ways, O house of Israel.” / As for you, son of man, your people are talking about you near the city walls and in the doorways of their houses. One speaks to another, each saying to his brother, ‘Come and hear the message that has come from the LORD!’

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Infidelity: General Scriptures Concerning Ezekiel 36:2

This is what the Lord GOD says: Because the enemy has said of you, ‘Aha! The ancient heights have become our possession,’

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Infidelity: General Scriptures Concerning Daniel 3:15

Now, if you are ready, as soon as you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipes, and all kinds of music, you must fall down and worship the statue I have made. But if you refuse to worship, you will be thrown at once into the blazing fiery furnace. Then what god will be able to deliver you from my hands?”

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Infidelity: General Scriptures Concerning Daniel 7:25

He will speak out against the Most High and oppress the saints of the Most High, intending to change the appointed times and laws; and the saints will be given into his hand for a time, and times, and half a time.

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Infidelity: General Scriptures Concerning Daniel 8:10, 25

It grew as high as the host of heaven, and it cast down some of the host and some of the stars to the earth, and trampled them. / Through his craft and by his hand, he will cause deceit to prosper, and in his own mind he will make himself great. In a time of peace he will destroy many, and he will even stand against the Prince of princes. Yet he will be broken off, but not by human hands.

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Infidelity: General Scriptures Concerning Daniel 11:36, 37

Then the king will do as he pleases and will exalt and magnify himself above every god, and he will speak monstrous things against the God of gods. He will be successful until the time of wrath is completed, for what has been decreed must be accomplished. / He will show no regard for the gods of his fathers, nor for the one desired by women, nor for any other god, because he will magnify himself above them all.

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Infidelity: General Scriptures Concerning Hosea 7:5, 13, 15

The princes are inflamed with wine on the day of our king; so he joins hands with those who mock him. / Woe to them, for they have strayed from Me! Destruction to them, for they have rebelled against Me! Though I would redeem them, they speak lies against Me. / Although I trained and strengthened their arms, they plot evil against Me.

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Infidelity: General Scriptures Concerning Amos 5:18

Woe to you who long for the Day of the LORD! What will the Day of the LORD be for you? It will be darkness and not light.

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Infidelity: General Scriptures Concerning Amos 7:16, 17

Now, therefore, hear the word of the LORD. You say: ‘Do not prophesy against Israel; do not preach against the house of Isaac.’ / Therefore this is what the LORD says: ‘Your wife will become a prostitute in the city, and your sons and daughters will fall by the sword. Your land will be divided by a measuring line, and you yourself will die on pagan soil. And Israel will surely go into exile, away from their homeland.’”

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Infidelity: General Scriptures Concerning Micah 7:10

Then my enemy will see and will be covered with shame—she who said to me, “Where is the LORD your God?” My eyes will see her; at that time she will be trampled like mud in the streets.

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Infidelity: General Scriptures Concerning Zephaniah 1:12

And at that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps and punish the men settled in complacency, who say to themselves, ‘The LORD will do nothing, either good or bad.’

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Infidelity: General Scriptures Concerning Malachi 1:7

By presenting defiled food on My altar. But you ask, ‘How have we defiled You?’ By saying that the table of the LORD is contemptible.

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Infidelity: General Scriptures Concerning Malachi 3:13, 14

“Your words against Me have been harsh,” says the LORD. “Yet you ask, ‘What have we spoken against You?’ / You have said, ‘It is futile to serve God. What have we gained by keeping His requirements and walking mournfully before the LORD of Hosts?

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Infidelity: General Scriptures Concerning Matthew 12:24

But when the Pharisees heard this, they said, “Only by Beelzebul, the prince of demons, does this man drive out demons.”

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Infidelity: General Scriptures Concerning Matthew 22:23

That same day the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to Jesus and questioned Him.

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Infidelity: General Scriptures Concerning Matthew 25:24–27

Finally, the servant who had received the one talent came and said, ‘Master, I knew that you are a hard man, reaping where you have not sown and gathering where you have not scattered seed. / So I was afraid and went out and hid your talent in the ground. See, you have what belongs to you.’ / ‘You wicked, lazy servant!’ replied his master. ‘You knew that I reap where I have not sown and gather where I have not scattered seed.

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Infidelity: General Scriptures Concerning Matthew 27:39–44

And those who passed by heaped abuse on Him, shaking their heads / and saying, “You who are going to destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, save Yourself! If You are the Son of God, come down from the cross!” / In the same way, the chief priests, scribes, and elders mocked Him, saying,

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