but if it is of God, you cannot overthrow it--lest you even be found to fight against God."

"You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, you also do.

And now go, and I will open your mouth, and will instruct you in what you shall say.

I will not allow any weapon formed against you to prosper; and every voice that shall rise up against you for judgment, you shall vanquish them all; and your adversaries shall be [condemned] thereby. There is an inheritance to them that serve the Lord, and you shall be righteous before Me, says the Lord.

Behold, I have made you this day as a strong city, and as a bronze wall, strong [against] all the kings of Judah and its princes, and the people of the land.

And they shall fight against you, but they shall by no means prevail against you; because I am with you, to deliver you, says the Lord.

And I will make you to this people as a strong bronze wall; and they shall fight against you, but they shall by no means prevail against you.

But when I speak to you, I will open your mouth, and you shall say to them, Thus says the Lord: He that hears, let him hear; and he that is disobedient, let him be disobedient; for they are a provoking house.

But whenever they hand you over, do not worry how or what you should speak. For it will be given to you in that hour what you should speak;

for you are not the [ones] speaking, but the Spirit of your Father who is speaking in you.

Now whenever they bring you to the synagogues and rulers and authorities, do not worry about how or what you should answer, or what you should say.

For the Holy Spirit will teach you in that very hour what you must say."

for I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries will not be able to contradict nor to withstand.

The attendants answered them, "No man ever spoke like this Man!"

but there is a spirit in mortals, and the inspiration of the Almighty is that which teaches.

for I am full of words, for the spirit within me destroys me.

Surely I will strengthen myself with the Spirit of the Lord, and of judgment, and of power, to declare to Jacob his transgressions, and to Israel his sins.

And he himself will go before Him in the spirit and power of Elijah, 'to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children,' and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous, to make ready a people prepared for the Lord."

And my message and my preaching [were] not with persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,