Matthew 12:27

But some of the itinerant Jews, exorcists, took on themselves to invoke over those who had the evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, “We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preaches.”

The children of Israel also killed Balaam the son of Beor, the soothsayer, with the sword, among the rest of their slain.

David said to him, “Your blood be on your head; for your mouth has testified against you, saying, ‘I have slain Yahweh’s anointed.’ ”

So the poor has hope, and injustice shuts her mouth.

But the king shall rejoice in God. Everyone who swears by him will praise him, for the mouth of those who speak lies shall be silenced.

The upright will see it, and be glad. All the wicked will shut their mouths.

that you may remember, and be confounded, and never open your mouth any more, because of your shame, when I have forgiven you all that you have done,” says the Lord Yahweh.’ ”

John said to him, “Teacher, we saw someone who doesn’t follow us casting out demons in your name; and we forbade him, because he doesn’t follow us.”

But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’

Surely there is no enchantment with Jacob; Neither is there any divination with Israel. Now it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, ‘What has God done!’

When Balaam saw that it pleased Yahweh to bless Israel, he didn’t go, as at the other times, to use divination, but he set his face toward the wilderness.

Their own tongues shall ruin them. All who see them will shake their heads.

When he is judged, let him come out guilty. Let his prayer be turned into sin.

and he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you come in here not wearing wedding clothing?’ He was speechless.

But Jesus held his peace. The high priest answered him, “I adjure you by the living God, that you tell us whether you are the Christ, the Son of God.”

and crying out with a loud voice, he said, “What have I to do with you, Jesus, you Son of the Most High God? I adjure you by God, don’t torment me.”

John answered, “Master, we saw someone casting out demons in your name, and we forbade him, because he doesn’t follow with us.”

He said to him, “What is written in the law? How do you read it?”

He said to him, “You have answered correctly. Do this, and you will live.”

But if I cast out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your children cast them out? Therefore they will be your judges.

Following Paul and us, she cried out, “These men are servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to us a way of salvation!”

Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are who judge. For in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself. For you who judge practice the same things.

What then? Are we better than they? No, in no way. For we previously warned both Jews and Greeks that they are all under sin.

For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who doesn’t continue in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them.”

Tell me, you that desire to be under the law, don’t you listen to the law?

But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

whose mouths must be stopped: men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for dishonest gain’s sake.

To Adam he said, “Because you have listened to your wife’s voice, and ate from the tree, about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ the ground is cursed for your sake. You will eat from it with much labor all the days of your life.

From now on, when you till the ground, it won’t yield its strength to you. You will be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth.”

Behold, you have driven me out today from the surface of the ground. I will be hidden from your face, and I will be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth. Whoever finds me will kill me.”

She said, “Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? For I have borne him a son in his old age.”

The elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the rewards of divination in their hand. They came to Balaam, and spoke to him the words of Balak.

How shall I curse whom God has not cursed? How shall I defy whom Yahweh has not defied?

He took up his parable, and said, “Alas, who shall live when God does this?

For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves concede.

Joshua commanded them with an oath at that time, saying, “Cursed is the man before Yahweh who rises up and builds this city Jericho. With the loss of his firstborn he will lay its foundation, and with the loss of his youngest son he will set up its gates.”

Joshua said to the people, “You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen Yahweh yourselves, to serve him.” They said, “We are witnesses.”

He will keep the feet of his holy ones, but the wicked will be put to silence in darkness; for no man will prevail by strength.

The men of Israel were distressed that day; for Saul had adjured the people, saying, “Cursed is the man who eats any food until it is evening, and I am avenged of my enemies.” So none of the people tasted food.

Samuel said, “Then what does this bleating of the sheep in my ears, and the lowing of the cattle which I hear mean?”

Then king Solomon swore by Yahweh, saying, “God do so to me, and more also, if Adonijah has not spoken this word against his own life.

The king sent and called for Shimei, and said to him, “Didn’t I adjure you by Yahweh, and warn you, saying, ‘Know for certain, that on the day you go out, and walk anywhere else, you shall surely die?’ You said to me, ‘The saying that I have heard is good.’

The king said to him, “How many times do I have to adjure you that you speak to me nothing but the truth in Yahweh’s name?”

Your own mouth condemns you, and not I. Yes, your own lips testify against you.

Because they don’t respect the works of Yahweh, nor the operation of his hands, he will break them down and not build them up.

Come, see Yahweh’s works, what desolations he has made in the earth.

Come, and see God’s deeds— awesome work on behalf of the children of men.

Give thanks to Yahweh! Call on his name! Make his doings known among the peoples.

They may curse, but you bless. When they arise, they will be shamed, but your servant shall rejoice.

For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”

Then his lord called him in, and said to him, ‘You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt, because you begged me.

Which of the two did the will of his father?” They said to him, “The first.” Jesus said to them, “Most certainly I tell you that the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering into God’s Kingdom before you.

Therefore you testify to yourselves that you are children of those who killed the prophets.

But if that evil servant should say in his heart, ‘My lord is delaying his coming,’

This was from the Lord. It is marvelous in our eyes’?”

They, when they heard it, being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning from the oldest, even to the last. Jesus was left alone with the woman where she was, in the middle.

All who heard him were amazed, and said, “Isn’t this he who in Jerusalem made havoc of those who called on this name? And he had come here intending to bring them bound before the chief priests!”

For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity, that they may be without excuse.

You therefore who teach another, don’t you teach yourself? You who preach that a man shouldn’t steal, do you steal?

Much in every way! Because first of all, they were entrusted with the revelations of God.

May it never be! Yes, let God be found true, but every man a liar. As it is written, “that you might be justified in your words, and might prevail when you come into judgment.”

for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

that no flesh should boast before God.

So they glorified God in me.

when he comes in that day to be glorified in his saints and to be admired among all those who have believed, because our testimony to you was believed.

knowing that such a one is perverted and sins, being self-condemned.

Oh how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for those who fear you, which you have worked for those who take refuge in you, before the sons of men!

All mankind shall be afraid. They shall declare the work of God, and shall wisely ponder what he has done.

Who has worked and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I, Yahweh, the first, and with the last, I am he.”

“Now, Lord our God, who has brought your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and have gotten yourself renown, as it is today; we have sinned. We have done wickedly.

I also tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my assembly, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.

“He said to him, ‘Out of your own mouth I will judge you, you wicked servant! You knew that I am an exacting man, taking up that which I didn’t lay down, and reaping that which I didn’t sow.

The chief priests therefore and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, “What are we doing? For this man does many signs.

saying, “What shall we do to these men? Because indeed a notable miracle has been done through them, as can be plainly seen by all who dwell in Jerusalem, and we can’t deny it.

By the hands of the apostles many signs and wonders were done among the people. They were all with one accord in Solomon’s porch.

More believers were added to the Lord, multitudes of both men and women.

even Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.

All the multitude kept silence, and they listened to Barnabas and Paul reporting what signs and wonders God had done among the nations through them.

Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.

And the God of peace will quickly crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.

that he might redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of children.