Job 32:18-19

18For I am full of words;
the spirit within me constrains me.
19Behold, my belly is like wine that has no vent;
like new awineskins ready to burst.

Jeremiah 20:9

9If I say, “I will not mention him,
or speak any more in his name,”
bthere is in my heart as it were a burning fire
shut up in my bones,
and cI am weary with holding it in,
and I cannot.

Amos 2:12

12 “But you made the Nazirites ddrink wine,
and commanded the prophets,
saying, e‘You shall not prophesy.’

Amos 7:12-17

12And Amaziah said to Amos, f“O seer, go, flee away gto the land of Judah, and heat bread there, and prophesy there, 13but inever again prophesy at Bethel, for jit is the king’s sanctuary, and it is a temple of the kingdom.”

14Then Amos answered and said to Amaziah, kI was
Or am; twice in this verse
no prophet, nor a prophet’s son, but mI was a herdsman and a dresser of sycamore figs.
15 nBut the Lord took me from following the flock, and the Lord said to me, ‘Go, prophesy to my people Israel.’ 16 oNow therefore hear the word of the Lord.

You say, p‘Do not prophesy against Israel,
and qdo not preach against the house of rIsaac.’
17 sTherefore thus says the Lord:

“‘Your wife shall be a prostitute in the city,
and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword,
and your land tshall be divided up with a measuring line;
you yourself shall die in an unclean land,
and uIsrael shall surely go into exile away from its land.’”

Acts 4:20

20for vwe cannot but speak of what wwe have seen and heard.”

Acts 5:20

20Go and stand in the temple and speak to the people all xthe words of ythis zLife.”

Acts 5:29

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

1 Corinthians 9:16

16For if I preach the gospel, that gives me no ground for boasting. For abnecessity is laid upon me. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!
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