¹⁶ And so we know and rely on the love God has for us.

God is love.^(A) Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.^(B)

¹⁸ Before sunset on the seventh day the men of the town said to him,

Samson said to them,

¹⁴ “I have taken great pains to provide for the temple of the Lord a hundred thousand talents^[a] of gold, a million talents^[b] of silver, quantities of bronze and iron too great to be weighed, and wood and stone. And you may add to them.^(A)

⁸ Watch out that you do not lose what we^[a] have worked for, but that you may be rewarded fully.^(A)