Numbers 24:13
24:13 ‘If Balak would give me his palace full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond
the commandment
of the
Lord to do either good or evil of my own will,
but whatever the
Lord tells me I must speak’?
Numbers 24:1
Balaam Prophesies Yet Again
24:1 When Balaam saw that it pleased the Lord to bless Israel, he did not go as at the other times to seek for omens, but he set his face toward the wilderness.
Numbers 18:1
Responsibilities of the Priests
18:1 The Lord said to Aaron, “You and your sons and your tribe with you must bear the iniquity of the sanctuary, and you and your sons with you must bear the iniquity of your priesthood.
Jeremiah 23:16
23:16 The Lord who rules over all says to the people of Jerusalem:
“Do not listen to what
those prophets are saying to you.
They are filling you with false hopes.
They are reporting visions of their own imaginations,
not something the Lord has given them to say.
Ezekiel 13:17
13:17 “As for you, son of man, turn toward the daughters of your people who are prophesying from their imagination. Prophesy against them
John 5:30
5:30 I can do nothing on my own initiative.
Just as I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just,
because I do not seek my own will, but the will of the one who sent me.
John 6:38
6:38 For I have come down from heaven not to do my own will but the will of the one who sent me.