Numbers 23:19

New International Version

God is not human, that he should lie, not a human being, that he should change his mind. Does he speak and then not act? Does he promise and not fulfill?

Cross References

Genesis 26:3

Stay in this land for a while, and I will be with you and will bless you. For to you and your descendants I will give all these lands and will confirm the oath I swore to your father Abraham.

Genesis 28:15

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

1 Kings 14:11

Dogs will eat those belonging to Jeroboam who die in the city, and the birds will feed on those who die in the country. The Lord has spoken!’

2 Kings 15:12

So the word of the Lord spoken to Jehu was fulfilled: “Your descendants will sit on the throne of Israel to the fourth generation.”

2 Kings 7:2

The officer on whose arm the king was leaning said to the man of God, “Look, even if the Lord should open the floodgates of the heavens, could this happen?” “You will see it with your own eyes,” answered Elisha, “but you will not eat any of it!”

1 Chronicles 17:17

And as if this were not enough in your sight, my God, you have spoken about the future of the house of your servant. You, Lord God, have looked on me as though I were the most exalted of men.

Psalm 110:4

The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind: “You are a priest forever, in the order of Melchizedek.”

Psalm 132:11

The Lord swore an oath to David, a sure oath he will not revoke: “One of your own descendants I will place on your throne.

Psalm 77:9

Has God forgotten to be merciful? Has he in anger withheld his compassion?”

Psalm 89:34

I will not violate my covenant or alter what my lips have uttered.

Psalm 89:35

Once for all, I have sworn by my holiness— and I will not lie to David—

Isaiah 21:17

The survivors of the archers, the warriors of Kedar, will be few.” The Lord, the God of Israel, has spoken.

Isaiah 31:2

Yet he too is wise and can bring disaster; he does not take back his words. He will rise up against that wicked nation, against those who help evildoers.

Isaiah 40:8

The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God endures forever.”

Isaiah 46:11

From the east I summon a bird of prey; from a far-off land, a man to fulfill my purpose. What I have said, that I will bring about; what I have planned, that I will do.

Isaiah 55:11

so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.

Jeremiah 4:28

Therefore the earth will mourn and the heavens above grow dark, because I have spoken and will not relent, I have decided and will not turn back.”

Daniel 4:28

All this happened to King Nebuchadnezzar.

Hosea 11:9

I will not carry out my fierce anger, nor will I devastate Ephraim again. For I am God, and not a man— the Holy One among you. I will not come against their cities.

Micah 7:20

You will be faithful to Jacob, and show love to Abraham, as you pledged on oath to our ancestors in days long ago.

Habakkuk 2:3

For the revelation awaits an appointed time; it speaks of the end and will not prove false. Though it linger, wait for it; it will certainly come and will not delay.

Malachi 3:6

“I the Lord do not change. So you, the descendants of Jacob, are not destroyed.

Numbers 14:35

I, the Lord, have spoken, and I will surely do these things to this whole wicked community, which has banded together against me. They will meet their end in this wilderness; here they will die.”

Numbers 23:18

Then he spoke his message: “Arise, Balak, and listen; hear me, son of Zippor.

Luke 21:33

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.

Romans 11:29

for God’s gifts and his call are irrevocable.

Romans 9:6

It is not as though God’s word had failed. For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel.

2 Timothy 2:13

if we are faithless, he remains faithful, for he cannot disown himself.

Titus 1:2

in the hope of eternal life, which God, who does not lie, promised before the beginning of time,

Hebrews 6:18

God did this so that, by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled to take hold of the hope set before us may be greatly encouraged.

Hebrews 7:21

but he became a priest with an oath when God said to him: “The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind: ‘You are a priest forever.’ ”

James 1:17

Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.

James 4:5

Or do you think Scripture says without reason that he jealously longs for the spirit he has caused to dwell in us?

Joshua 21:45

Not one of all the Lord’s good promises to Israel failed; every one was fulfilled.

1 Samuel 15:29

He who is the Glory of Israel does not lie or change his mind; for he is not a human being, that he should change his mind.”

1 Samuel 3:12

At that time I will carry out against Eli everything I spoke against his family—from beginning to end.