Judges 16:15 ““How can you say, ‘I love you,’” she asked, “when your heart is not wi…”

Judges 16:15

“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

Other translations

King James Version

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.

World English Bible

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 where your great strength lies.”

American Standard Version

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.

Geneva Bible 1599

Againe shee sayde vnto him, Howe canst thou say, I loue thee, when thine heart is not with me? thou hast mocked mee these three times, and hast not tolde me wherein thy great strength lieth.

Darby Translation

Then she said to him, How canst thou say, I love thee, when thy heart is not with me? these three times hast thou mocked me, and hast not told me in what is thy great strength.

Young's Literal Translation

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 [is].'

Bible in Basic English

And she said to him, Why do you say you are my lover when your heart is not mine? Three times you have made sport of me, and have not made clear to me the secret of your great strength.

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Cross references

“How canst”

Judges 14:16 Proverbs 5:3–14 Proverbs 2:16

Judges 14:16 · BSB

Then 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 fat…

Proverbs 5:3–14 · BSB

Though the lips of the forbidden woman drip honey and her speech is smoother than oil,

Proverbs 2:16 · BSB

It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive words

“when thine”

Proverbs 23:26 John 15:10 John 14:15 Genesis 29:20 Deuteronomy 6:5 2 Samuel 16:17

Proverbs 23:26 · BSB

My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes delight in my ways.

John 15:10 · BSB

If you keep My commandments, you will remain in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and remain in His love.

John 14:15 · BSB

If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.

Genesis 29:20 · BSB

So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, yet it seemed but a few days because of his love for her.

Deuteronomy 6:5 · BSB

And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.

2 Samuel 16:17 · BSB

“Is this the loyalty you show your friend?” Absalom replied. “Why did you not go with your friend?”

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

14So while he slept, Delilah took the seven braids of his hair and wove them into the web. Then she tightened it with a pin and called to him, “Samson, the Philistines are here!” But he awoke from his sleep and pulled out the pin with the loom and the web.

16Finally, after she had pressed him daily with her words and pleaded until he was sick to death,

Read Judges 16