PRESSURE OF THE WICKED – Online Church

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A righteous man who falters before the wicked Is like a murky spring and a polluted well. Proverbs 25:26 NKJV

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Like a trampled spring and a polluted well, So is a righteous person who gives way before the wicked. Proverbs 25:26 NASB

So Samson’s wife wept before him and said, “You only hate me, you do not love me; you have asked my countrymen a riddle, and have not told [the answer] to me.” And he said to her, “Listen, I have not told my father or my mother [either], so [why] should I tell you?” However Samson’s wife wept before him seven days while their [wedding] feast lasted, and on the seventh day he told her because she pressed him so hard. Then she told the [answer to the] riddle to her countrymen. Judges 14:16-17 AMP

So Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me where your great strength lies and with what you may be bound and subdued.”
Then Delilah said to Samson, “See now, you have mocked me and told me lies; now please tell me [truthfully] how you may be bound.”
Then Delilah said to Samson, “Until now you have mocked me and told me lies; tell me [truthfully] with what you may be bound.”
Then 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.” When she pressured him day after day with her words and pleaded with him, he was annoyed to death. Then [finally] he told her everything that was in his heart and said to her … Judges 16:6-22 AMP

And so it was that she spoke to Joseph [persistently] day after day, but he did not listen to her [plea] … or be with her. Genesis 39:10 AMP

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