Judges 16:15

Easy To Read Version

Then Delilah said to Samson, “How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when you don’t even trust me? You refuse to tell me your secret. This is the third time you made me look foolish. You haven’t told me the secret of your great strength.”

Cross References

Genesis 29:20

So Jacob stayed and worked for Laban for seven years. But it seemed like a very short time because he loved Rachel very much.

2 Samuel 16:17

Absalom answered, “Why are you not loyal to your friend {David}? Why did you not leave {Jerusalem} with your friend?”

Nehemiah 6:4

Sanballat and Geshem sent the same message to me four times. And I sent back the same answer to them each time.

Proverbs 2:16

Wisdom will save you from the woman stranger. Wisdom will save you from that foreign woman who says such sweet words when she tempts you to sin with her.

Proverbs 23:26

My son, listen closely to what I am saying. Let my life be your example.

John 14:15

“If you love me, then you will do the things I command.

John 15:10

I have obeyed my Father’s commands, and I continue in his love. In the same way, if you obey my commands, you will continue in my love.

Deuteronomy 6:5

You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.

1 John 5:3

Grace (kindness), mercy, and peace will be with us from God the Father and from his Son, Jesus Christ. We receive these blessings through truth and love.

Judges 14:16

So Samson’s wife went to him and began crying. She said, “You just hate me! You don’t really love me! You told my people a riddle, and you won’t tell me the answer.”

Judges 16:14

Then Delilah fastened {the loom to the ground} with a tent peg. Again she called out to him, “Samson, the Philistine men are going to capture you!” Samson pulled up the tent peg, the loom, [119] and the shuttle! [120]

Judges 16:16

She kept bothering Samson day after day. He got so tired of her asking him about his secret that he felt like he was going to die.