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Romans 1:26 (NLT)

That is why God abandoned them to their shameful desires. Even the women turned against the natural way to have sex and instead indulged in sex with each other.

And the men, instead of having normal sexual relations with women, burned with lust for each other. Men did shameful things with other men, and as a result of this sin, they suffered within themselves the penalty they deserved.

Romans 1:28 (NLT)

Since they thought it foolish to acknowledge God, he abandoned them to their foolish thinking and let them do things that should never be done.

Romans 1:29 (NLT)

Their lives became full of every kind of wickedness, sin, greed, hate, envy, murder, quarreling, deception, malicious behavior, and gossip.

Romans 1:30 (NLT)

They are backstabbers, haters of God, insolent, proud, and boastful. They invent new ways of sinning, and they disobey their parents.

Romans 1:31 (NLT)

They refuse to understand, break their promises, are heartless, and have no mercy.

Romans 1:32 (NLT)

They know God’s justice requires that those who do these things deserve to die, yet they do them anyway. Worse yet, they encourage others to do them, too.

1 Samuel 17:1 (NLT)

The Philistines now mustered their army for battle and camped between Socoh in Judah and Azekah at Ephes-dammim.

1 Samuel 17:3 (NLT)

So the Philistines and Israelites faced each other on opposite hills, with the valley between them.

1 Samuel 17:4 (NLT)

Then Goliath, a Philistine champion from Gath, came out of the Philistine ranks to face the forces of Israel. He was over nine feet tall!

1 Samuel 17:5 (NLT)

He wore a bronze helmet, and his bronze coat of mail weighed 125 pounds.

1 Samuel 17:6 (NLT)

He also wore bronze leg armor, and he carried a bronze javelin on his shoulder.

1 Samuel 17:8 (NLT)

Goliath stood and shouted a taunt across to the Israelites. “Why are you all coming out to fight?” he called. “I am the Philistine champion, but you are only the servants of Saul. Choose one man to come down here and fight me!

1 Samuel 17:10 (NLT)

I defy the armies of Israel today! Send me a man who will fight me!”

1 Samuel 17:11 (NLT)

When Saul and the Israelites heard this, they were terrified and deeply shaken.

1 Samuel 17:15 (NLT)

but David went back and forth so he could help his father with the sheep in Bethlehem.

1 Samuel 17:16 (NLT)

For forty days, every morning and evening, the Philistine champion strutted in front of the Israelite army.

1 Samuel 17:17 (NLT)

One day Jesse said to David, “Take this basket of roasted grain and these ten loaves of bread, and carry them quickly to your brothers.

1 Samuel 17:19 (NLT)

David’s brothers were with Saul and the Israelite army at the valley of Elah, fighting against the Philistines.

1 Samuel 17:20 (NLT)

So David left the sheep with another shepherd and set out early the next morning with the gifts, as Jesse had directed him. He arrived at the camp just as the Israelite army was leaving for the battlefield with shouts and battle cries.

1 Samuel 17:24 (NLT)

As soon as the Israelite army saw him, they began to run away in fright.

1 Samuel 17:25 (NLT)

“Have you seen the giant?” the men asked. “He comes out each day to defy Israel. The king has offered a huge reward to anyone who kills him. He will give that man one of his daughters for a wife, and the man’s entire family will be exempted from paying taxes!”

1 Samuel 17:26 (NLT)

David asked the soldiers standing nearby, “What will a man get for killing this Philistine and ending his defiance of Israel? Who is this pagan Philistine anyway, that he is allowed to defy the armies of the living God?”

1 Samuel 17:27 (NLT)

And these men gave David the same reply. They said, “Yes, that is the reward for killing him.”

1 Samuel 17:28 (NLT)

But when David’s oldest brother, Eliab, heard David talking to the men, he was angry. “What are you doing around here anyway?” he demanded. “What about those few sheep you’re supposed to be taking care of? I know about your pride and deceit. You just want to see the battle!”