Numbers 23:19

Modern English Version

God is not a man, that He should lie, nor a son of man, that He should repent. Has He spoken, and will He not do it? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?

Cross References

Genesis 26:3

Sojourn in this land, and I will be with you and will bless you; for I will give to you and all your descendants all these lands, and I will fulfill the oath which I swore to Abraham your father.

Genesis 28:15

Behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go, and I will bring you back to this land. For I will not leave you until I have done what I promised you.”

1 Kings 14:11

Descendants of Jeroboam who die in the city will be eaten by dogs, and those who die in the field will be eaten by the birds of the air, for the Lord has spoken it.’

2 Kings 15:12

This was the word of the Lord which He spoke to Jehu, “Your sons will sit on the throne of Israel to the fourth generation.” And it was so.

2 Kings 7:2

Then an officer on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, “If the Lord were to make windows in heaven, could this thing happen?” And he said, “You will see it with your eyes, but you will not eat from it.”

1 Chronicles 17:17

This was something small in Your eyes, God, but You have spoken concerning the house of Your servant for a great while to come and have regarded me with the status of a great man, O  Lord God.

Psalm 110:4

The Lord has sworn and will not change His mind, “You are a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.”

Psalm 132:11

The Lord has sworn in truth to David from which He will not turn back: “A son of the fruit of your body will I set upon your throne.

Psalm 77:9

Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has He in anger withheld His tender mercies?”   Selah

Psalm 89:34

I will not break My covenant, nor alter the word that has gone out from My lips.

Psalm 89:35

Once and for all have I sworn by My holiness; I will not lie to David.

Isaiah 21:17

And the remainder of the number of archers, the mighty men of the Kedarites, shall be diminished, for the Lord God of Israel has spoken it.

Isaiah 31:2

Yet He also is wise and will bring disaster and will not call back His words, but will arise against the house of the evildoers and against the help of those who work iniquity.

Isaiah 40:8

The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God shall stand forever.

Isaiah 46:11

calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man who executes My counsel from a far country. Indeed, I have spoken it; I will also bring it to pass. I have purposed it; I will also do it.

Isaiah 55:11

so shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; it shall not return to Me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.

Jeremiah 4:28

For this the earth shall mourn, and the heavens above be black, because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and will not relent, nor will I turn back from it.

Daniel 4:28

All this came upon King Nebuchadnezzar.

Hosea 11:9

I will not execute the fierceness of My anger; I will not again destroy Ephraim. For I am God, and not man, the Holy One in your midst, and I will not come in wrath.

Micah 7:20

You will give faithfulness to Jacob and benevolence to Abraham, which You swore to our fathers from the days of old.

Habakkuk 2:3

For the vision is yet for an appointed time; but it speaks of the end, and does not lie. If it delays, wait for it; it will surely come, it will not delay.

Malachi 3:6

For I am the Lord, I do not change; therefore you, O sons of Jacob, are not consumed.

Numbers 14:35

I the Lord have spoken. I will surely do this to all this evil assembly gathered against Me. In this wilderness they will be finished, and there they will die.

Numbers 23:18

And he took up his parable and said: “Rise up, Balak, and hear! Listen to me, you son of Zippor!

Luke 21:33

Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will not pass away.

Romans 11:29

For the gifts and calling of God are irrevocable.

Romans 9:6

It is not as though the word of God has failed. For they are not all Israel who are descended from Israel,

2 Timothy 2:13

If we are faithless, He remains faithful; He cannot deny Himself.

Titus 1:2

in hope of eternal life which God, who cannot lie, promised before the world began,

Hebrews 6:18

So that by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to hold fast to the hope set before us.

Hebrews 7:21

(Other priests were made without an oath, but this One with an oath by the One who said to Him: “The Lord has sworn and will not relent, ‘You are a priest forever, in the order of Melchizedek.’ ” )

James 1:17

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom is no change or shadow of turning.

James 4:5

Do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “He yearns jealously for the spirit that lives in us” ?

Joshua 21:45

Not a single word of all the good things that the Lord had spoken to the Israelites failed. They all came to pass.

1 Samuel 15:29

Also the Strength of Israel will not lie or repent, for He is not a man, that He should repent.”

1 Samuel 3:12

In that day I will bring about against Eli everything which I have spoken with regard to his house, from beginning to end.