Gen 2:24, 34:3, Judg 16:4-21, 2Ch 19:2, Psa 139:21, Rom 1:32, 12:9 | ESV | STEP | Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife , and they shall become one flesh .

4 After this he loved a woman in the Valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah. 5 And ^bthe lords of the Philistines came up to her and said to her, ^c“Seduce him, and see where his great strength lies, and by what means we may overpower him, that we may bind him to ^dhumble him. And we will each give you 1,100 pieces of silver.” 6 So Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me where your great strength lies, and how you might be bound, that one could ^esubdue you.”

7 Samson said to her, “If they bind me with seven fresh bowstrings that have not been dried, ^fthen I shall become weak and be like any other man.” 8 Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven fresh bowstrings that had not been dried, and she bound him with them. 9 Now she had men lying in ambush in an inner chamber. And she said to him, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” But he snapped the bowstrings, as a thread of flax snaps when it touches the fire. So the secret of his strength was not known.

10 Then Delilah said to Samson, “Behold, you have mocked me and told me lies. Please tell me how you might be bound.” 11 And he said to her, “If they bind me with ^gnew ropes that have not been used, then I shall become weak and be like any other man.” 12 So Delilah took new ropes and bound him with them and said to him, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” And the men lying in ambush were in an inner chamber. But he snapped the ropes off his arms like a thread.

13 Then Delilah said to Samson, “Until now you have mocked me and told me lies. Tell me how you might be bound.” And he said to her, “If you weave the seven locks of my head with the web and fasten it tight with the pin, then I shall become weak and be like any other man.” 14 So while he slept, Delilah took the seven locks of his head and wove them into the web. ^{▼▼Compare Septuagint; Hebrew lacks and fasten it tight . . . into the web} And she made them tight with the pin and said to him, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” But he awoke from his sleep and pulled away the pin, the loom, and the web.

15 And she said to him, ⁱ“How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when your heart is not with me? You have mocked me these three times, and you have not told me where your great strength lies.” 16 And ^jwhen she pressed him hard with her words day after day, and urged him, his soul was vexed to death. 17 And he told her all his heart, and said to her, ^k“A razor has never come upon my head, for I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother’s womb. If my head is shaved, then my strength will leave me, and I shall become weak and be like any other man.”

18 When Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent and called the lords of the Philistines, saying, “Come up again, for he has told me all his heart.” Then the lords of the Philistines came up to her and brought ^lthe money in their hands. 19 She made him sleep on her knees. And she called a man and had him shave off the seven locks of his head. Then she began ^mto torment him, and his strength left him. 20 And she said, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” And he awoke from his sleep and said, “I will go out as at other times and shake myself free.” But he did not know that ⁿthe Lord had left him. 21 And the Philistines seized him and gouged out his eyes and brought him down to Gaza and bound him with bronze shackles. ^oAnd he ground at the mill in the prison.

2 Chronicles 19:2

2 But ^pJehu the son of ^qHanani ^rthe seer went out to meet him and said to King Jehoshaphat, “Should you ^shelp the wicked and love those who hate the Lord? Because of this, ^twrath has gone out against you from the Lord.

Psalms 139:21

21 ^uDo I not hate those who hate you, O Lord?
And do I not ^vloathe those who ^wrise up against you?

Romans 1:32

32 Though they know ^xGod’s righteous decree that those who practice such things ^ydeserve to die, they not only do them but ^zgive approval to those who practice them.

Romans 12:9

Marks of the True Christian

9 ^aaLet love be genuine. ^abAbhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good.