Quotes about Manipulation

if threats, manipulation, and guilt could create lasting change in the life of another person, Jesus would not have had to come.

Evil spirits work through people.

Come, let us get our father drunk with wine so we can sleep with him and preserve his line.”

She also put the skins of the young goats on his hands and on the smooth part of his neck.

So on the fourth day they said to Samson’s wife, “Entice your husband to explain the riddle to us, or we will burn you and your father’s household to death. Did you invite us here to rob us?”

The lords of the Philistines went to her and said, “Entice him and find out the source of his great strength and how we can overpower him to tie him up and subdue him. Then each one of us will give you eleven hundred shekels of silver.”

So Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me the source of your great strength and how you can be tied up and subdued.”

So the lords of the Philistines brought her seven fresh bowstrings that had not been dried, and she tied him up with them.

Then Delilah said to Samson, “You have mocked me and lied to me! Now please tell me how you can be tied up.”

Then Delilah said to Samson, “You have mocked me and lied to me all along! Tell me how you can be tied up.” He told her, “If you weave the seven braids of my head into the web of a loom and tighten it with a pin, I will become as weak as any other man.”

So while he slept, Delilah took the seven braids of his hair and wove them into the web. Then she tightened it with a pin and called to him, “Samson, the Philistines are here!” But he awoke from his sleep and pulled out the pin with the loom and the web.

Finally, after she had pressed him daily with her words and pleaded until he was sick to death,