Quotes About Truth

“Yet as surely as I live and as surely as the whole earth is filled with the glory of the LORD,

So tell them: As surely as I live, declares the LORD, I will do to you exactly as I heard you say.

If these men die a natural death, or if they suffer the fate of all men, then the LORD has not sent me.

But if the LORD brings about something unprecedented, and the earth opens its mouth and swallows them and all that belongs to them so that they go down alive into Sheol, then you will know that these men have treated the LORD with contempt.”

But the donkey said to Balaam, “Am I not the donkey you have ridden all your life until today? Have I ever treated you this way before?” “No,” he replied.

The angel of the LORD asked him, “Why have you beaten your donkey these three times? Behold, I have come out to oppose you, because your way is perverse before me.

“See, I have come to you,” Balaam replied, “but can I say just anything? I must speak only the word that God puts in my mouth.”

How can I curse what God has not cursed? How can I denounce what the LORD has not denounced?

But Balaam replied, “Should I not speak exactly what the LORD puts in my mouth?”

God is not a man, that He should lie, or a son of man, that He should change His mind. Does He speak and not act? Does He promise and not fulfill?

I have indeed received a command to bless; He has blessed, and I cannot change it.

But Balaam replied, “Did I not tell you that whatever the LORD says, I must do?”

and he lifted up an oracle, saying: “This is the prophecy of Balaam son of Beor, the prophecy of a man whose eyes are open,

Balaam answered Balak, “Did I not already tell the messengers you sent me

that even if Balak were to give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not do anything of my own accord, good or bad, to go beyond the command of the LORD? I will speak whatever the LORD says.

Then Balaam lifted up an oracle, saying, “This is the prophecy of Balaam son of Beor, the prophecy of a man whose eyes are open,

But if you do not do this, you will certainly sin against the LORD—and be assured that your sin will find you out.

If anyone kills a person, the murderer is to be put to death on the testimony of the witnesses. But no one is to be put to death based on the testimony of a lone witness.

Show no partiality in judging; hear both small and great alike. Do not be intimidated by anyone, for judgment belongs to God. And bring to me any case too difficult for you, and I will hear it.”

You must not add to or subtract from what I command you, so that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God that I am giving you.

that you do not act corruptly and make an idol for yourselves of any form or shape, whether in the likeness of a male or female,

And there you will serve man-made gods of wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or eat or smell.

But if from there you will seek the LORD your God, you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.

You were shown these things so that you would know that the LORD is God; there is no other besides Him.