¹⁵ 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 in which your great strength lies.

¹⁶ Samson's wife wept before him, and said, You do but hate me, and don't love me: you have put forth a riddle to the children of my people, and haven't told it me. He said to her, Behold, I haven't told it my father nor my mother, and shall I tell you?

³ For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.

¹⁵ Don't love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father's love isn't in him.

¹⁶ For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn't the Father's, but is the world's.

¹⁴ For the love of Christ constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died.

¹⁵ He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.

¹⁰ If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and remain in his love.

²¹ One who has my commandments, and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him."

²² Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, "Lord, what has happened that you are about to reveal yourself to us, and not to the world?"

²³ Jesus answered him, "If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him.

²⁴ He who doesn't love me doesn't keep my words. The word which you hear isn't mine, but the Father's who sent me.

¹⁵ If you love me, keep my commandments.

⁶ Set me as a seal on your heart, As a seal on your arm; For love is strong as death. Jealousy is as cruel as Sheol; Its flashes are flashes of fire, A very flame of Yahweh.

⁷ Many waters can't quench love, Neither can floods drown it. If a man would give all the wealth of his house for love, He would be utterly scorned. Friends

²⁶ My son, give me your heart; And let your eyes keep in my ways.

³ For the lips of an adulteress drip honey. Her mouth is smoother than oil,

⁴ But in the end she is as bitter as wormwood, And as sharp as a two-edged sword.

⁵ Her feet go down to death. Her steps lead straight to Sheol.

⁶ She gives no thought to the way of life. Her ways are crooked, and she doesn't know it.

⁷ Now therefore, my sons, listen to me. Don't depart from the words of my mouth.

⁸ Remove your way far from her. Don't come near the door of her house,

⁹ Lest you give your honor to others, And your years to the cruel one;

¹⁰ Lest strangers feast on your wealth, And your labors enrich another man's house.

¹¹ You will groan at your latter end, When your flesh and your body are consumed,

¹² And say, "How I have hated instruction, And my heart despised reproof;

¹³ Neither have I obeyed the voice of my teachers, Nor turned my ear to those who instructed me!

¹⁴ I have come to the brink of utter ruin, In the midst of the gathered assembly."

¹⁶ To deliver you from the strange woman, Even from the foreigner who flatters with her words;

¹⁷ Absalom said to Hushai, Is this your kindness to your friend? Why didn't you go with your friend?

¹³ Samuel came to Saul; and Saul said to him, Blessed are you by Yahweh: I have performed the commandment of Yahweh.

¹⁴ Samuel said, What means then this bleating of the sheep in my ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?

⁵ and you shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might.

²⁰ Jacob served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.