Samson is listed in Hebrews 11 as a hero of faith.

His entire career in Judges consists of personal vendettas, sexually compromised relationships with Philistine women, and violence that serves his own anger more consistently than the covenant’s purposes. He marries a Philistine woman against his parents’ wishes. He kills thirty men to pay a gambling debt. He burns the Philistines’ crops in retaliation for a personal slight. He visits a prostitute in Gaza. He falls for Delilah, who betrays him three times before he tells her the truth. He loses his strength, loses his eyes, and dies pulling down the temple of Dagon on himself and three thousand Philistines.

Hebrews 11 puts him in the same list as Abraham and Moses.

The question that raises is serious: what does faith mean in this tradition, and what does God actually require of the people He calls?