Numbers 23:12

New American Bible - revised edition

Balaam replied, “Is it not what the Lord puts in my mouth that I take care to repeat?” The Second Oracle.

Cross References

Exodus 4:15

You will speak to him and put the words in his mouth. I will assist both you and him in speaking and teach you both what you are to do.

Proverbs 26:25

When they speak graciously, do not trust them, for seven abominations are in their hearts.

Numbers 22:20

That night God came to Balaam and said to him: If these men have come to summon you, go back with them; yet only on the condition that you do exactly as I tell you.

Numbers 22:38

Balaam answered Balak, “Well, I have come to you after all. But what power have I to say anything? I can speak only what God puts in my mouth.”

Numbers 23:13

Then Balak said to him, “Please come with me to another place from which you can see them; but you will see only some, not all of them, and from there lay a curse on them for me.”

Numbers 23:20

I was summoned to bless; I will bless; I cannot revoke it!

Numbers 23:26

But Balaam answered Balak, “Did I not tell you, ‘Everything the Lord tells me I must do’?” The Third Oracle.

Numbers 23:3

Balaam said to Balak, “Stand here by your burnt offering while I go over there. Perhaps the Lord will meet me, and then I will tell you whatever he lets me see.” And so he went out on the barren height.

Numbers 24:13

‘Even if Balak gave me his house full of silver and gold, I could not of my own accord do anything, good or evil, contrary to the command of the Lord’? Whatever the Lord says I must say. The Fourth Oracle.

Romans 16:18

For such people do not serve our Lord Christ but their own appetites, and by fair and flattering speech they deceive the hearts of the innocent.

Titus 1:16

They claim to know God, but by their deeds they deny him. They are vile and disobedient and unqualified for any good deed.