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: The world, the flesh and the devil
Usage
Temptation of all kinds.Definition
The world represents wealth, power and ambition; the flesh, sinful indulgence of all kinds; and the devil, temptation to sins of pride, anger and so on. Christians pray for God's help against these things. '... from all the deceits of the world, the flesh, and the devil '' (Taken from the Book of Common Prayer, 1662, The Litany).The act of tempting or something that entices an individual to do wrong. In the Bible, can come from a person's internal desires or from an external evil force such as the Devil.
Disobedience to the known will of God. According to Christian theology human beings have displayed a pre-disposition to sin since the Fall of Humankind.
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.
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