²⁰ Behold, I have received [commandment] to bless: He has blessed, and I can't reverse it.

¹⁷ that in blessing I will bless you, and in multiplying I will multiply your seed as the stars of the heavens, and as the sand which is on the seashore. Your seed will possess the gate of his enemies.

¹² God said to Balaam, You shall not go with them; you shall not curse the people; for they are blessed.

² I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you, and make your name great. You will be a blessing.

¹⁸ Balaam answered the servants of Balak, If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I can't go beyond the word of Yahweh my God, to do less or more.

¹³ Yes, since the day was I am he; and there is none who can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who can hinder it?

²⁷ My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

²⁸ I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.

²⁹ My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out of my Father's hand.

³⁸ For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,

³⁹ nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

⁵ who by the power of God are guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

³⁸ Balaam said to Balak, Behold, I have come to you: have I now any power at all to speak anything? the word that God puts in my mouth, that shall I speak.