Proverbs 7:26b
Many strong men have been slain by strange women.
Strange women often lead men astray. This is a tragic tragedy twice over. For one, it ends with a man in sin; and for two, it begins with the sin of a man being led by a woman.
In other words, if it is a sin for a man to give his strength to a woman, and it is, how much more is it a sin to give it to a strange one?
Proverbs 31:3
Give not thy strength unto women,
nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings.
Samson was the strongest man alive, yet he was too weak to say, “No” to a strange woman. His submission to her wiles led him to his death. Yet, he wasn’t the first, only the most famous, and he wasn’t the last, merely the most notable.
If a man who could have by force whatever he wanted could not force himself to go without what he felt like having, we should take heed lest we too be overtaken.
1 Corinthians 10:12-13
Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall. There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
Who you worship will inform who you marry and who you marry will inform how you worship. Do not give yourself quarter to go after strange gods or strange women. Either one will end in your destruction. By God’s grace, Samson’s case ended in one last manful act of recollecting his faith into faithfulness, but only after a lifetime of spreading his faithlessness at leisure.
