^27 (A)My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me. ²⁸ And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand. ^29 (B)My Father, ^(C)who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of My Father’s hand.

¹² And God said to Balaam, “You shall not go with them; you shall not curse the people, for ^(A)they are blessed.”

¹⁷ blessing I will ^(A)bless you, and multiplying I will multiply your descendants ^(B)as the stars of the heaven ^(C)and as the sand which is on the seashore; and ^(D)your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies.

³⁸ For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor ^(A)principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, ³⁹ nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

¹⁸ Then Balaam answered and said to the servants of Balak, ^(A)“Though Balak were to give me his house full of silver and gold, ^(B)I could not go beyond the word of the Lord my God, to do less or more.

^5 (A)who are kept by the power of God through faith for salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

³⁸ And Balaam said to Balak, “Look, I have come to you! Now, have I any power at all to say anything? ^(A)The word that God puts in my mouth, that I must speak.”