So Jacob worked for Rachel seven years, yet in his eyes it was like a few days, because of his love for her.
Judges 16:15 - Tree of Life Version “How can you say, ‘I love you,’” she said to him, “when your heart is not with me? This is three times you’ve deceived me and not told me where your great strength comes from.” Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And she said unto him, How canst thou say, I love thee, when thine heart is not with me? Thou hast mocked me these three times, and hast not told me wherein thy great strength lieth. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And she said to him, How can you say, I love you, when your heart is not with me? You have mocked me these three times and have not told me in what your great strength lies. American Standard Version (1901) And she said unto him, How canst thou say, I love thee, when thy heart is not with me? thou hast mocked me these three times, and hast not told me wherein thy great strength lieth. Common English Bible Delilah said to him, “How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when you won’t trust me? Three times now you’ve made a fool out of me and not told me what gives you such great strength!” Catholic Public Domain Version And Delilah said to him: "How can you say that you love me, when your soul is not with me? You have lied to me on three occasions, and you are not willing to reveal wherein lies your very great strength." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And Dalila said to him: How dost thou say thou lovest me, when thy mind is not with me? Thou hast told me lies these three times, and wouldst not tell me wherein thy great strength lieth. |
So Jacob worked for Rachel seven years, yet in his eyes it was like a few days, because of his love for her.
But Absalom said to Hushai, “Is this your loyalty to your friend? Why did you not go with your friend?”
They sent me the same message four times, and each time I returned a similar response to them.
to deliver you from a seducing woman— a wayward wife with seductive words,
If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love.
Love Adonai your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.
For this is the love of God—that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome.
So Samson’s wife wept before him and said, “You only hate me! You don’t love me! You proposed a riddle to the sons of my people—yet you haven’t explained it to me!” “Look,” he said, “I haven’t explained it to my father or my mother, so should I explain it to you?”
So she pinned it with a pin and said to him, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” But he awoke from his sleep and pulled away the pin of the loom and the web.
Now it came about when she nagged him daily with her speeches and kept bothering him, his soul was annoyed to death.