A-Z: Common sayings from the Bible
- Sabbatical
- Sackcloth and ashes
- Sacrificial lamb
- Safe and sound
- Salt of the earth
- Scales falling from eyes
- Scapegoat
- Scarlet woman
- Scribes and Pharisees
- Scum of the earth
- Seamless robe
- Seeing the light
- Setting one's house in order
- Seven pillars of wisdom
- Shaking the dust off one's feet
- Sheep and goats
- Shibboleth
- Signs of the times
- Skin of one's teeth
- Sodom and Gomorrah
- Soft answer turns away anger
- Sour grapes
- Sow the wind and reap the whirlwind
- Spare the rod and spoil the child
- Speak now or forever hold one's peace
- Still, small voice
- Sting in the tail
- Stony ground
- Straight and narrow
- Strangers and pilgrims
- Streets paved with gold
- Stumbling block
- Suffer the little children
- Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof
- Sweating blood
- Swords into plowshares
- Taking (someone's) name in vain
- Taking up one's cross
- Tell it not in Gath
- Ten commandments
- Tested by fire
- The Lord gives and the Lord takes away
- The love of money is the root of evil
- The poor you always have with you
- The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak
- The world, the flesh and the devil
- There is nothing new under the sun
- Thief in the night
- Thirty pieces of silver
- Thorn in the flesh
A-Z: Common sayings from the Bible: Speak now or forever hold one's peace
Usage
Make any objection now or not at all.Definition
The Christian view of marriage is that it is binding before God, so any objection has to be supported by legal evidence and be openly declared. Once the marriage is solemnised, it is irrevocable. 'Therefore if any man can show any just cause, why they may not lawfully be joined together, let him now speak, or else hereafter for ever hold his peace' (Taken from the Book of Common Prayer, 1662, Marriage service).Name originally given to disciples of Jesus by outsiders and gradually adopted by the Early Church.
In the Bible the promise, or contract, between a man and a woman committing them to a life together, is also used as an image of the relationship between God and his people. .
The Bible describes God as the unique supreme being, creator and ruler of the universe.
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