She will keep you from a forbidden woman, a stranger with her flattering talk.

Though the lips of the forbidden woman drip honey and her words are smoother than oil,

"How can you say, 'I love you,' " she told him, "when your heart is not with me? This is the third time you have mocked me and not told me what makes your strength so great!"

he told her the whole truth and said to her, "My hair has never been cut, because I am a Nazirite to God from birth. If I am shaved, my strength will leave me, and I will become weak and be like any other man."

They lie to one another; they speak with flattering lips and deceptive hearts.

He refused, saying, "I won't eat," but when his servants and the woman urged him, he listened to them. He got up off the ground and sat on the bed.

One day Elisha went to Shunem. A prominent woman who [lived] there persuaded him to eat some food. So whenever he passed by, he stopped there to eat.

"Then the master told the slave, 'Go out into the highways and lanes and make them come in, so that my house may be filled.

But they urged Him: "Stay with us, because it's almost evening, and now the day is almost over." So He went in to stay with them.

After she and her household were baptized, she urged us, "If you consider me a believer in the Lord, come and stay at my house." And she persuaded us.

For Christ's love compels us, since we have reached this conclusion: if One died for all, then all died.