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Romans 1:5 (NLT)

Through Christ, God has given us the privilege and authority as apostles to tell Gentiles everywhere what God has done for them, so that they will believe and obey him, bringing glory to his name.

Romans 1:3 (NLT)

The Good News is about his Son. In his earthly life he was born into King David’s family line,

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 1:6 (NLT)

And you are included among those Gentiles who have been called to belong to Jesus Christ.

For ever since the world was created, people have seen the earth and sky. Through everything God made, they can clearly see his invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature. So they have no excuse for not knowing God.

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 1:32 (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 17:2 (NLT)

Saul countered by gathering his Israelite troops near the valley of Elah.

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 17:7 (NLT)

The shaft of his spear was as heavy and thick as a weaver’s beam, tipped with an iron spearhead that weighed 15 pounds. His armor bearer walked ahead of him carrying a shield.

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 17:9 (NLT)

If he kills me, then we will be your slaves. But if I kill him, you will be our slaves!

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 17:12 (NLT)

Now David was the son of a man named Jesse, an Ephrathite from Bethlehem in the land of Judah. Jesse was an old man at that time, and he had eight sons.

1 Samuel 17:13 (NLT)

Jesse’s three oldest sons—Eliab, Abinadab, and Shimea —had already joined Saul’s army to fight the Philistines.

1 Samuel 17:14 (NLT)

David was the youngest son. David’s three oldest brothers stayed with Saul’s army,

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 17:18 (NLT)

And give these ten cuts of cheese to their captain. See how your brothers are getting along, and bring back a report on how they are doing. ”