- after one’s own heart
- all things to all men; all things to all people
- alpha and omega
- Am I my brother’s keeper?
- amen
- Appendix: Biblical Names
- apple of one’s eye
- Armageddon; apocalypse
- babel; Tower of Babel
- baptism by fire; baptism of fire
- beat one’s swords into plowshares; turn one’s swords into plowshares
- behemoth; leviathan
- bite the dust
- blind leading the blind
- born again
- bottomless pit
- breath of life
- bricks without straw
- burning bush
- busybody
- by the skin of one’s teeth; by the skin of the teeth
- by their fruits ye shall know them; by their fruit you will know them; you will know them by their fruit
- cast pearls before swine; pearls before swine
- cast the first stone
- cast your bread upon the waters
- city on a hill; city upon a hill; hide one’s light under a bushel; hide one’s light under a basket
- coat of many colors
- cross to bear
- crucify
- Damascus road experience; road to Damascus; have scales fall from one’s eyes
- David and Goliath
- day of judgment; judgment day
- den of lions; lions’ den
- den of thieves
- double minded
- double-edged sword
- doubting Thomas
- eleventh hour
- evangelist; apostle
- fall by the wayside; drop by the wayside; go by the wayside
- fall flat on one’s face
- fall from grace
- far be it from (me)
- fat of the land
- feet of clay
- fig leaf
- filthy lucre; lucre
- fly in the ointment
- forbidden fruit
- four corners of the earth
- from the mouths of babes; out of the mouths of babes
- from time to time
- genesis
- gird one’s loins; gird up one’s loins
- go the way of all flesh
- God bless you; Bless you
- golden calf
- good Samaritan; Samaritan
- gospel; gospel truth
- hallelujah
- handwriting on the wall; writing on the wall
- head on a platter; head on a plate
- heaven; hell
- holier than thou
- holy of holies
- house divided
- how the mighty are fallen; how the mighty have fallen
- in the land of the living
- ivory tower
- jezebel
- jot or tittle; jot; iota
- keep house
- keep the faith; fight the good fight
- kiss of death
- labor of love
- land flowing with milk and honey; land of milk and honey
- law unto oneself
- Lazarus rising from the dead; modern-day Lazarus
- legion
- leopard can’t change its spots
- let the dead bury the dead; let the dead bury their dead; let the dead bury their own dead
- like a lamb to the slaughter
- like a thief in the night
- live by the sword, die by the sword; he who lives by the sword will die by the sword
- long-suffering
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