¹⁵ 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.

¹⁶ Then Samson's wife, weeping over him, said, Truly you have no love for me but only hate; you have put a hard question to the children of my people and have not given me the answer. And he said to her, See, I have not given the answer even to my father or my mother; am I to give it to you?

³ For loving God is keeping his laws: and his laws are not hard.

¹⁵ Have no love for the world or for the things which are in the world. If any man has love for the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

¹⁶ Because everything in the world, the desire of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father but of the world.

¹⁴ For it is the love of Christ which is moving us; because we are of the opinion that if one was put to death for all, then all have undergone death;

¹⁵ And that he underwent death for all, so that the living might no longer be living to themselves, but to him who underwent death for them and came back from the dead.

¹⁰ If you keep my laws, you will be ever in my love, even as I have kept my Father's laws, and am ever in his love.

²¹ He who has my laws and keeps them, he it is who has love for me: and he who has love for me will be loved by my Father, and I will have love for him and will let myself be seen clearly by him.

²² Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, How is it that you will let yourself be seen clearly by us and not by the world?

²³ Jesus said to him in answer, If anyone has love for me, he will keep my words: and he will be dear to my Father; and we will come to him and make our living-place with him.

²⁴ He who has no love for me does not keep my words; and the word which you are hearing is not my word but the Father's who sent me.

¹⁵ If you have love for me, you will keep my laws.

⁶ Put me as a sign on your heart, as a sign on your arm; love is strong as death, and wrath bitter as the underworld: its coals are coals of fire; violent are its flames.

⁷ Much water may not put out love, or the deep waters overcome it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would be judged a price not great enough.

²⁶ My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes take delight in my ways.

³ For honey is dropping from the lips of the strange woman, and her mouth is smoother than oil;

⁴ But her end is bitter as wormwood, and sharp as a two-edged sword;

⁵ Her feet go down to death, and her steps to the underworld;

⁶ She never keeps her mind on the road of life; her ways are uncertain, she has no knowledge.

⁷ Give ear to me then, my sons, and do not put away my words from you.

⁸ Go far away from her, do not come near the door of her house;

⁹ For fear that you may give your honour to others, and your wealth to strange men:

¹⁰ And strange men may be full of your wealth, and the fruit of your work go to the house of others;

¹¹ And you will be full of grief at the end of your life, when your flesh and your body are wasted;

¹² And you will say, How was teaching hated by me, and my heart put no value on training;

¹³ I did not give attention to the voice of my teachers, my ear was not turned to those who were guiding me!

¹⁴ I was in almost all evil in the company of the people.

¹⁶ To take you out of the power of the strange woman, who says smooth words with her tongue;

¹⁷ And Absalom said, Is this your love for your friend? why did you not go with your friend?

¹³ And Samuel came to Saul; and Saul said to him, May the blessing of the Lord be with you: I have done what was ordered by the Lord.

¹⁴ And Samuel said, What then is this sound of the crying of sheep and the noise of oxen which comes to my ears?

⁵ And the Lord your God is to be loved with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.

²⁰ And Jacob did seven years' work for Rachel; and because of his love for her it seemed to him only a very little time.