Those left in the land were the five Philistine cities, all the Canaanites, the Sidonians, and the Hivites who lived in the Lebanon Mountains from Mount Baal Hermon as far as Hamath Pass.

as well as all the territory of the Avvim to the south. (The land from the stream Shihor, at the Egyptian border, as far north as the border of Ekron was considered Canaanite; the kings of the Philistines lived at Gaza, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron.)

Achish called David and said to him, "I swear by the living God of Israel that you have been loyal to me; and I would be pleased to have you go with me and fight in this battle. I have not found any fault in you from the day you came over to me. But the other kings don't approve of you.

On the fourth day they said to Samson's wife, "Trick your husband into telling us what the riddle means. If you don't, we'll set fire to your father's house and burn you with it. You two invited us so that you could rob us, didn't you?"

You will be able to resist any immoral woman who tries to seduce you with her smooth talk,

If you go to her house, you are traveling the road to death. To go there is to approach the world of the dead.

The lips of another man's wife may be as sweet as honey and her kisses as smooth as olive oil,

She will take you down to the world of the dead; the road she walks is the road to death.

Now listen to me, sons, and never forget what I am saying.

If you do, others will gain the respect that you once had, and you will die young at the hands of merciless people.

You will lie groaning on your deathbed, your flesh and muscles being eaten away,

It can keep you away from bad women, from the seductive words of other men's wives.

A man can hire a prostitute for the price of a loaf of bread, but adultery will cost him all he has.

So she tempted him with her charms, and he gave in to her smooth talk.

where an arrow would pierce its heart. He was like a bird going into a net---he did not know that his life was in danger.

Do not let such a woman win your heart; don't go wandering after her.

If you go to her house, you are on the way to the world of the dead. It is a shortcut to death.

You know that your bodies are parts of the body of Christ. Shall I take a part of Christ's body and make it part of the body of a prostitute? Impossible!

But he who joins himself to the Lord becomes spiritually one with him.

He told his mother, "When someone stole those eleven hundred pieces of silver from you, you put a curse on the robber. I heard you do it. Look, I have the money. I am the one who took it." His mother said, "May the LORD bless you, my son!"

So that day Esau started on his way back to Edom.

I will reward you richly and do anything you say. Please come and curse these people for me."

But Balaam answered, "Even if Balak gave me all the silver and gold in his palace, I could not disobey the command of the LORD my God in even the smallest matter.

They are all experts at doing evil. Officials and judges ask for bribes. The influential people tell them what they want, and so they scheme together.

and asked, "What will you give me if I betray Jesus to you?" They counted out thirty silver coins and gave them to him.

But those who want to get rich fall into temptation and are caught in the trap of many foolish and harmful desires, which pull them down to ruin and destruction.

For the love of money is a source of all kinds of evil. Some have been so eager to have it that they have wandered away from the faith and have broken their hearts with many sorrows.