Four times they sent me the same message, and each time I gave them the same answer.

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We did not give in to them for a moment, so that the truth of the gospel(A) might be preserved for you.

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58 Therefore, my dear brothers and sisters, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord,(A) because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.(B)

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yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will see that she gets justice, so that she won’t eventually come and attack me!’”(A)

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15 The simple believe anything,
    but the prudent give thought to their steps.(A)

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21 With persuasive words she led him astray;
    she seduced him with her smooth talk.(A)

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15 Then she said to him, “How can you say, ‘I love you,’(A) when you won’t confide in me? This is the third time(B) you have made a fool of me and haven’t told me the secret of your great strength.(C) 16 With such nagging she prodded him day after day until he was sick to death of it.

17 So he told her everything.(D) “No razor has ever been used on my head,” he said, “because I have been a Nazirite(E) dedicated to God from my mother’s womb. If my head were shaved, my strength would leave me, and I would become as weak as any other man.”

18 When Delilah saw that he had told her everything, she sent word to the rulers of the Philistines(F), “Come back once more; he has told me everything.” So the rulers of the Philistines returned with the silver in their hands.(G) 19 After putting him to sleep on her lap, she called for someone to shave off the seven braids of his hair, and so began to subdue him.[a] And his strength left him.(H)

20 Then she called, “Samson, the Philistines are upon you!”(I)

He awoke from his sleep and thought, “I’ll go out as before and shake myself free.” But he did not know that the Lord had left him.(J)

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 16:19 Hebrew; some Septuagint manuscripts and he began to weaken

10 Then Delilah said to Samson, “You have made a fool of me;(A) you lied to me. Come now, tell me how you can be tied.”

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So Delilah(A) said to Samson, “Tell me the secret of your great strength and how you can be tied up and subdued.”

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