Bible Dictionary: Forsaking God: Balaam

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Torrey's Topical Textbook

2 Peter 2:15
Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;
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Library

Conversion of all that Come.
... Conversion," in its widest scope, signifies a forsaking of wickedness ... must be supported
by the providence of God, yet it ... not affect the ego, as in Balaam's case ...
/.../kuyper/the work of the holy spirit/xxix conversion of all that.htm

Repentance
... Balaam, terrified by the angel standing in his pathway with ... Do not put off the work
of forsaking your sins ... to yield to the pleading voice of God's Holy Spirit ...
//christianbookshelf.org/white/steps to christ/chapter 3 repentance.htm

Scriptures Showing the Sin and Danger of Joining with Wicked and ...
... reconciled to the church, as Absalom's vow at Hebron, as Balaam and Balak ... is a great
point and argument of declining and forsaking the law of God, when men ...
/.../binning/the works of the rev hugh binning/section v scriptures showing the.htm

The Strait Gate;
... to stimulate the careless to find, and to enter the gate of this the only city of
refuge from eternal misery"to fill the heart of God's children with love ...
/.../bunyan/the works of john bunyan volumes 1-3/the strait gate.htm

The Marvels of Holy Scripture, --Moral and Physical. --Jael's Deed ...
... Balaam's story for example in the Book of Numbers, is ... we take away from them, under
peril of God's curse. ... Not he who, forsaking the flowery fields of the Gospel ...
/.../burgon/inspiration and interpretation/sermon vii the marvels of.htm

The Prophet Amos.
... the centre of theocratic transgression, the forsaking of the ... custom of designating
the kingdom of God from its ... signification (compare my work on Balaam, p.465 ...
/.../hengstenberg/christology of the old testament/the prophet amos.htm

Book ii.
... Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord." [1525] We have a physician, let ...
This Balaam wished for as the greatest good for himself, when, inspired by the ...
//christianbookshelf.org/ambrose/works and letters of st ambrose/book ii.htm

The Desire of the Righteous Granted;
... none can imagine what fearful plights a wicked man is in sometimes; though God in
his ... let my last end be like his,' was the desire of wicked Balaam (Numbers 23 ...
/.../bunyan/the works of john bunyan volumes 1-3/the desire of the righteous.htm

The Same Necessary and Eternal Different Relations
... they are not, and wish, with Balaam, that though ... greatest and most unnatural corruption
of God's creation that ... in one word; what the sun's forsaking that equal ...
/.../i proposition i the same.htm

Concerning the Ministry.
... Hence it follows, that the inward work of holiness, and forsaking iniquity, is ... of
the Catholic church; yet it is absolutely necessary, where God affords the ...
/.../proposition x concerning the ministry.htm

Subtopics

Forsaking

Forsaking God is Forsaking: His Commandments

Forsaking God is Forsaking: His Covenant

Forsaking God is Forsaking: His House

Forsaking God is Forsaking: The Right Way

Forsaking God: Ahab

Forsaking God: Amon

Forsaking God: Backsliders Guilty of

Forsaking God: Balaam

Forsaking God: Brings Confusion

Forsaking God: Brings Down his Wrath