Numbers 23:12

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

He answered, “Must I not take care to say what the Lord puts into my mouth?”

Cross References

Exodus 4:15

You shall speak to him and put the words in his mouth, and I will be with your mouth and with his mouth and will teach you what you shall do.

Proverbs 26:25

when an enemy speaks graciously, do not believe it, for there are seven abominations concealed within;

Numbers 22:20

That night God came to Balaam and said to him, “If the men have come to summon you, get up and go with them, but do only what I tell you to do.”

Numbers 22:38

Balaam said to Balak, “I have come to you now, but do I have power to say just anything? The word God puts in my mouth, that is what I must say.”

Numbers 23:13

So Balak said to him, “Come with me to another place from which you may see them; you shall see only part of them and shall not see them all; then curse them for me from there.”

Numbers 23:20

See, I received a command to bless; he has blessed, and I cannot revoke it.

Numbers 23:26

But Balaam answered Balak, “Did I not speak to you, saying, ‘Whatever the Lord says, that is what I must do’?”

Numbers 23:3

Then Balaam said to Balak, “Stay here beside your burnt offerings while I go aside. Perhaps the Lord will come to meet me. Whatever he shows me I will tell you.” And he went to a bare height.

Numbers 24:13

‘If 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 of my own will; what the Lord says, that is what I will say’?

Romans 16:18

For such people do not serve our Lord Christ but their own appetites, and by smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the simple-minded.

Titus 1:16

They profess to know God, but they deny him by their actions; they are detestable, disobedient, unfit for any good work.