But Balaam answered Balak, “Did I not tell you, ‘All that the Lord says, that I must do’?”
But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.
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.
But Peter and John answered them, “Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God, you must judge, for we cannot but speak of what we have seen and heard.”
But Micaiah said, “As the Lord lives, what my God says, that I will speak.”
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.”
But Micaiah said, “As the Lord lives, what the Lord says to me, that I will speak.”
And Balaam said to Balak, “Did I not tell your messengers whom you sent to me, ‘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’?
And he answered and said, “Must I not take care to speak what the Lord puts in my mouth?” And Balak said to him, “Please come with me to another place, from which you may see them. You shall see only a fraction of them and shall not see them all. Then curse them for me from there.”
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