A-Z: Common sayings from the Bible
- A time for everything
- Aaron's rod
- Abraham's bosom
- Absalom
- Adam's rib
- Alien corn
- All flesh is grass
- All my worldly goods
- All sorts and conditions of men
- All things to all men
- Alpha and Omega
- Am I my brother's keeper?
- An eye for an eye
- Apple of one's eye
- Armageddon
- As you sow, so shall you reap
- Ashes to ashes, dust to dust
- At a venture (Bow)
- At death's door
- At one's last gasp
- At one's wit's end
- Balaam's ass
- Baptism of fire
- Beam / plank in one's own eye
- Bear false witness
- Behemoth
- Being beside oneself
- Blind leading the blind
- Book of life
- Born of woman
- Bottomless pit
- Bowels of compassion
- Bread of adversity
- Bread of affliction
- Breathing out threats
- Bringing nothing into the world and carrying nothing out
- Broad way
- Broken reed
- Bruised reed
- Burning bush
- Burying one's talent
- Butter someone up
- By their fruits you shall know them
- Cast first stone
- Cast one's bread upon the waters
- Casting pearls before swine
- Chariots of fire
- Chasing after the wind
- Chastise with scorpions
- Clashing cymbal
A-Z: Common sayings from the Bible: Read, mark, learn and inwardly digest
Usage
An exhortation to pay attention.Definition
A prayer that the Christian might properly use and attend to God's Word, the Bible. The comma after 'hear them,' has been thought by some to have been added, and the original idea, for a predominantly illiterate people, to have been 'hear them read, mark ...' 'Grant that we may in such wise hear them [the Scriptures], read, mark, learn and inwardly digest them, that by patience and comfort of thy holy Word, we may embrace and ever hold fast the blessed hope of eternal life '' (Taken from the Book of Common Prayer, 1662, Collect for 2nd Sunday in Advent).Name originally given to disciples of Jesus by outsiders and gradually adopted by the Early Church.
The Bible describes God as the unique supreme being, creator and ruler of the universe.
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.
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