Judges 16:15
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)““How can you say, ‘I love you,’” she asked, “when your heart is not with me? This is the third time you have mocked me and failed to reveal to me the source of your great strength!””
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““How can you say, ‘I love you,’” she asked, “when your heart is not with me? This is the third time you have mocked me and failed to reveal to me the source of your great strength!””
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“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.”
King James Version · Public Domain“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.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“And she saith unto him, `How dost thou say, I have loved thee, and thy heart is not with me? these three times thou hast played upon me, and hast not declared to me wherein thy great power <FI>is<Fi> .'”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Judges 16:15 — 16 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 29:20So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, yet it seemed but a few days because of his love for her.
- Deuteronomy 6:5And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.
- Judges 14:16Then Samson’s wife came to him, weeping, and said, “You hate me! You do not really love me! You have posed to my people a riddle, but have not explained it to me.” “Look,” he said, “I have not even explained it to my father or mother, so why should I explain it to you?”
- 1 Samuel 15:13When Samuel reached him, Saul said to him, “May the LORD bless you. I have carried out the LORD’s instructions.”
- 2 Samuel 16:17“Is this the loyalty you show your friend?” Absalom replied. “Why did you not go with your friend?”
- Nehemiah 6:4Four times they sent me the same message, and each time I gave the same reply.
- Proverbs 2:16It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive words
- Proverbs 5:3Though the lips of the forbidden woman drip honey and her speech is smoother than oil,
- Proverbs 23:26My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes delight in my ways.
- Song of Solomon 8:6Set me as a seal over your heart, as a seal upon your arm. For love is as strong as death, its jealousy as unrelenting as Sheol. Its sparks are fiery flames, the fiercest blaze of all.
- John 14:15If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.
- John 14:21Whoever has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me. The one who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and reveal Myself to him.”
- John 15:10If you keep My commandments, you will remain in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and remain in His love.
- 2 Corinthians 5:14For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that One died for all, therefore all died.
- 1 John 2:15Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
- 1 John 5:3For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome,
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