Judges 16:7

Tree of Life Version

Samson said to her, “If they bind me with seven fresh cords that have never been dried, then I would be weak and be like any other man.”

Cross References

Proverbs 12:19

Truthful lips endure forever, but a lying tongue for only a moment.

Proverbs 17:7

Arrogant lips are not fitting for a fool, much less lying lips for a ruler.

Romans 3:8

And why not say, “Let us do evil, so that good may come” — just as we are being slandered and as some claim that we say. Their condemnation is deserved!

Galatians 6:7

Do not be deceived—God is not mocked. For whatever a man sows, that he also shall reap.

Colossians 3:9

Do not lie to one another. After all, you have taken off the old self with its practices

Judges 16:10

Delilah said to Samson, “Oh, you deceived me! You lied to me! Now tell me please, how you can be bound?”

Judges 16:6

So Delilah said to Samson, “Tell me please, where does your great strength come from? How could you be bound to subdue you?”

Judges 16:8

So the Philistine lords brought up to her seven fresh cords that had never been dried, and she bound him with them,

Judges 16:9

while an ambush was waiting in an inner room. “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” she said to him. But he broke the cords just as a strand of straw snaps when it touches fire. So his strength remained unknown.

1 Samuel 19:17

Saul then said to Michal, “Why have you deceived me like this and let my enemy get away, so that he escaped?” Michal answered Saul, “He said to me, ‘Let me go or I’ll kill you!’”

1 Samuel 27:10

Achish would ask, “Where have you raided today?” So David would reply, “Against the Negev of Judah, against the Negev of the Jerahmeelite and against the Negev of the Kenites.”