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Common Phrases From the Bible
List of 80 Bible Sayings
- A law unto themselves
- A little birdie told me
- A man after my own heart
- Am I my brother’s keeper?
- An eye for an eye, a tooth for tooth
- Apple of my eye
- Armageddon
- As old as Methuselah
- Ashes to ashes, dust to dust
- Baptism of fire
- Be a man
- Behemoth
- Better to give than receive
- Bite the dust
- Broken heart
- By the sweat of your brow
- Can a leopard change his spots?
- Cross to bear
- Drop in a bucket
- Eat, drink, and be merry
- Ends of the earth
- Escaping by the skin of your teeth
- Fall by the wayside
- Fall from grace
- Feet of clay
- Fight the good fight
- Fire and brimstone
- Flesh and blood
- Fly in the ointment
- Forbidden fruit
- Four corners of the earth
- Gird your loins
- Give up the ghost
- Go the extra mile
- Good Samaritan
- He who lives by the sword, dies by the sword
- Head on a platter
- How the mighty have fallen
- Jezebel
- Kiss of death
- Labour of love
- Land of milk and honey
- Letter of the law
- Like a lamb led to the slaughter
- Man does not live by bread alone
- Manna from Heaven
- Millstone around your neck
- No rest for the wicked
- Nothing but skin and bones
- O ye, of little faith
- Of biblical proportions
- Philistine
- Pride comes before a fall
- Put words in one’s mouth
- Put your house in order
- Reap what you sow
- Rise and shine
- Salt of the earth
- Scapegoat
- See eye to eye
- Sign of the times
- Sour grapes
- Spare the rod, spoil the child
- Straight and narrow
- The blind leading the blind
- The eleventh hour
- The land of Nod
- The love of money is the root of all evil
- The powers that be
- The root of the matter
- The truth will set you free
- There is nothing new under the sun
- Throw the first stone
- To cast pearls before swine
- To move mountains
- Twinkling of an eye
- Wash your hands of the matter
- Wits’ end
- Wolves in sheep’s clothing
- Writing is on the wall
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