But Balaam answered and said to the servants of Balak, “Though Balak were to give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not go beyond the command of the Lord my God to do less or more.
‘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 speaks, that will I speak’?
But Micaiah said, “As the Lord lives, what my God says, that I will speak.”
But Micaiah said, “As the Lord lives, what the Lord says to me, that I will speak.”
But Balaam answered Balak, “Did I not tell you, ‘All that the Lord says, that I must do’?”
Balaam said to Balak, “Behold, I have come to you! Have I now any power of my own to speak anything? The word that God puts in my mouth, that must I speak.”
They profess to know God, but they deny him by their works. They are detestable, disobedient, unfit for any good work.
But Peter said to him, “May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could obtain the gift of God with money!
Then Daniel answered and said before the king, “Let your gifts be for yourself, and give your rewards to another. Nevertheless, I will read the writing to the king and make known to him the interpretation.
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