A-Z: Common sayings from the Bible
- Issue of blood
- Jacob's ladder
- Jeremiad
- Jesus wept
- Jesus, Mary and Joseph
- Jezebel
- Job's comforters
- Jonah
- Jubilee
- Judas
- Keeping best until last
- Kicking against the pricks
- Kind word turns away anger
- Labourer is worthy of his hire
- Lamb to the slaughter
- Land flowing with milk and honey
- Land of Nod
- Last enemy
- Last trumpet
- Law of Medes and Persians
- Left hand not knowing what the right is doing
- Leopard can't change its spots
- Let my people go
- Let us now praise famous men
- Let your 'Yes' be 'Yes' and your 'No' 'No'
- Leviathan
- Like mother, like daughter
- Lilies of the field
- Lion's den
- Little leaven
- Living dog is better than a dead lion
- Lost sheep
- Lot's wife
- Love covers a multitude of sins
- Love is ...
- Love strong as death
- Love thy neighbour
- Love your enemies
- Making bricks without straw
- Man after [someone's] own heart
- Man is born to trouble
- Man of sorrows
- Man shall not live by bread alone
- Manna [bread] from heaven
- Many are called, but few are chosen
- Many mansions
- Many waters cannot quench love
- Mark of Cain
- Mark of the Beast
- Mess of pottage
A-Z: Common sayings from the Bible: Let us now praise famous men
Usage
A phrase sometimes heard at funerals.Definition
The beginning of a eulogy about the great and the good in Israel's history. Ecclesiasticus is in the apocrypha or deutero-canonical books of the Bible, held as scripture by Roman Catholics but not by Protestants.
Bible References
Ecclesiasticus 44:1The Old Testament frequently refers to Israel as the Promised Land allocated to God's children. Prophecies refer to it as his chosen nation and the one out of which the Messiah would come.
Books whose status as part of the Bible is disputed.
Included in the canon of scripture, authoritative.
The Christian Bible consists of the Old Testament scriptures inherited from Judaism, together with the New Testament, drawn from writings produced from c.40-125CE, which describe the life of Jesus and the establishment of the Christian church.
Sacred writings. The New Testament uses the term to refer to the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament). In time, the Christian Church recognised the Old and New Testaments as both containing God's authoritive written word.
Member of a worldwide Christian church which traces its origins from St. Peter, one of Jesus' original disciples. It has a continuous history from earliest Christianity.
Christians whose faith and practice stems from the Reformation movement in the sixteenth century which resulted in new churches being created as an alternative to the Roman Catholic Church.
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