Four times they sent me this same proposal, and each time I gave the same reply.
I sent messengers to them with this reply: “I am engaged in a great enterprise and am unable to come down. Why should the work stop, while I leave it to come down to you?”
Then, the fifth time, Sanballat sent me the same message by one of his servants, who bore an unsealed letter
The naive believe everything, but the shrewd watch their steps.
She wins him over by repeated urging, with her smooth lips she leads him astray.
because this widow keeps bothering me I shall deliver a just decision for her lest she finally come and strike me.’”
Therefore, my beloved brothers, be firm, steadfast, always fully devoted to the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.
to them we did not submit even for a moment, so that the truth of the gospel might remain intact for you.
Delilah said to Samson, “You have mocked me and told me lies. Now tell me how you may be bound.”
So Delilah said to Samson, “Tell me where you get your great strength and how you may be bound so as to be made helpless.”