Numbers 22:18

18But Balaam answered and said to the servants of Balak, aThough Balak were to give me his house full of silver and gold, bI could not go beyond the command of the Lord my God to do less or more.

Numbers 22:38

38Balaam said to Balak, “Behold, I have come to you! Have I now any power of my own to speak anything? cThe word that God puts in my mouth, that must I speak.”

Numbers 23:12-13

12And he answered and said, d“Must I not take care to speak what the Lord puts in my mouth?”

Balaam’s Second Oracle

13And Balak said to him, “Please come with me to another place, from which you may see them. You shall see only a fraction of them and shall not see them all. Then curse them for me from there.”

Numbers 24:12-13

12And Balaam said to Balak, “Did I not tell your messengers whom you sent to me, 13 eIf Balak should give me his house full of silver and gold, I would not be able to go beyond the word of the Lord, to do either good or bad fof my own will. What the Lord speaks, that will I speak’?

1 Kings 22:14

14But Micaiah said, g“As the Lord lives, hwhat the Lord says to me, that I will speak.”

2 Chronicles 18:13

13But Micaiah said, i“As the Lord lives, jwhat my God says, that I will speak.”

Acts 4:19-20

19But Peter and John answered them, kWhether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God, you must judge, 20for lwe cannot but speak of what mwe have seen and heard.”

Acts 5:29

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