2 Chronicles 18:13
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13 But Micaiah said, “As the Lord lives, whatever my God says, that I will speak.”(A)
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Numbers 22:35
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35 The angel of the Lord said to Balaam, “Go with the men, but speak only what I tell you to speak.” So Balaam went on with the officials of Balak.(A)
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Numbers 24:13
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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’?(A)
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Numbers 22:18-20
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18 But Balaam replied to the servants of Balak, “Although 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.(A) 19 You also stay here overnight, so that I may learn what more the Lord may say to me.” 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.”(B)
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1 Thessalonians 2:4
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4 but, just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the message of the gospel, even so we speak, not to please mortals but to please God, who tests our hearts.(A)
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Galatians 1:10
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10 Am I now seeking human approval or God’s approval? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still pleasing people, I would not be a servant of Christ.(A)
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2 Corinthians 2:17
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17 For we are not peddlers of God’s word like so many,[a] but as persons of sincerity, as persons sent from God, we are speaking in Christ before God.(A)
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1 Corinthians 11:23
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The Institution of the Lord’s Supper
23 For I received from the Lord what I also handed on to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took a loaf of bread,(A)
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Acts 20:27
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27 for I did not shrink from declaring to you the whole purpose of God.(A)
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Micah 2:6-7
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6 “Do not preach”—thus they preach—
“one should not preach of such things;
disgrace will not overtake us.”(A)
7 Should this be said, O house of Jacob?
Is the Lord’s patience exhausted?
Are these his doings?
Do not my words do good
to one who walks uprightly?
Ezekiel 2:7
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7 You shall speak my words to them, whether they hear or refuse to hear, for they are a rebellious house.(A)
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Jeremiah 42:4
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4 The prophet Jeremiah said to them, “Very well: I am going to pray to the Lord your God as you request, and whatever the Lord answers you I will tell you; I will keep nothing back from you.”(A)
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Jeremiah 23:28
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28 Let the prophet who has a dream tell the dream, but let the one who has my word speak my word faithfully. What has straw in common with wheat? says the Lord.(A)
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