“And Balak said to Balaam, ‘Do not curse them at all, and do not bless them at all.’ But Balaam answered Balak, ‘Did I not tell you, “All that the LORD says, that I must do”?’”
Numbers 23:25-26
“And Balak said to Balaam, “Do not curse them at all, and do not bless them at all.”
“See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse:”
Deuteronomy 11:26
“Do not withhold discipline from a child; if you strike him with a rod, he will not die.”
Proverbs 23:13
“And have you forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons? ‘My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the LORD, nor be weary when reproved by him. For the LORD disciplines the one he loves, and chastises every son whom he receives.’ It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline? If you are left without discipline, in which all have participated, then you are illegitimate children and not sons.”
Hebrews 12:5-8
“Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.”
Psalm 23:4
But Balaam answered Balak, “Did I not tell you, ‘All that the LORD says, that I must do’?”
“The blessing, if you obey the commandments of the LORD your God, which I command you today, and the curse, if you do not obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside from the way that I am commanding you today, to go after other gods that you have not known.”
Deuteronomy 11:27-28
“Not everyone who says to me, ‘LORD, LORD,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.”
Matthew 7:21