we cannot.

Acts 2:4, 32
And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them. . . .

Acts 17:16, 17
While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, he was deeply disturbed in his spirit to see that the city was full of idols. . . .

Acts 18:5
And when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul devoted himself fully to the word, testifying to the Jews that Jesus is the Christ.

Numbers 22:38
"See, I have come to you, " Balaam replied, "but can I say just anything? I must speak only the word that God puts in my mouth."

Numbers 23:20
I have indeed received a command to bless; He has blessed, and I cannot change it.

2 Samuel 23:2
The Spirit of the LORD spoke through me; His word was on my tongue.

Job 32:18-20
For I am full of words, and my spirit within me compels me. . . .

Jeremiah 1:7, 17-19
But the LORD told me: "Do not say, 'I am only a child.' For to everyone I send you, you must go, and all that I command you, you must speak. . . .

Jeremiah 4:19
My anguish, my anguish! I writhe in pain! Oh, the pain in my chest! My heart pounds within me; I cannot be silent. For I have heard the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of battle.

Jeremiah 6:11
But I am full of the LORD's wrath; I am tired of holding it back. Pour it out on the children in the street, and on the young men gathered together. For both husband and wife will be captured, the old and the very old.

Jeremiah 20:9
If I say, "I will not mention Him or speak any more in His name, " His message becomes a fire burning in my heart, shut up in my bones, and I become weary of holding it in, and I cannot prevail.

Ezekiel 3:11, 14-21
Go to your people, the exiles; speak to them and tell them, 'This is what the Lord GOD says, ' whether they listen or refuse to listen." . . .

Micah 3:8
As for me, however, I am filled with power by the Spirit of the LORD, with justice and courage, to declare to Jacob his transgression and to Israel his sin.

1 Corinthians 9:16, 17
Yet when I preach the gospel, I have no reason to boast, because I am obligated to preach. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel! . . .

the things.

Acts 1:8, 22
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be My witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth." . . .

Acts 3:15
You killed the Author of life, but God raised Him from the dead, and we are witnesses of the fact.

Acts 5:32
We are witnesses of these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey Him."

Acts 10:39-41
We are witnesses of all that He did, both in the land of the Jews and in Jerusalem. And although they put Him to death by hanging Him on a tree, . . .

Acts 22:15
You will be His witness to all men of what you have seen and heard.

Luke 1:2
just as they were handed down to us by the initial eyewitnesses and servants of the word.

Hebrews 2:3, 4
how shall we escape if we neglect such a great salvation? This salvation was first announced by the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard Him, . . .

1 John 1:1-3
That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our own eyes, which we have gazed upon and touched with our own hands--this is the Word of life. . . .