Behold, I received a command to bless: he has blessed, and I cannot revoke it.
My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand.
God said to Balaam, “You shall not go with them. You shall not curse the people, for they are blessed.”
And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.
I will surely bless you, and I will surely multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and as the sand that is on the seashore. And your offspring shall possess the gate of his enemies,
Also henceforth I am he; there is none who can deliver from my hand; I work, and who can turn it back?”
For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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.
who by God's power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
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.”
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