The Most Well-Known Phrases from the Bible (light-hearted as well as serious)

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[Salvation]

Monday, June 28, 2010

The Most Well-Known Phrases from the Bible

Marcel over at the Catholic blog Aggie Catholics has put together a list of some of the most well-known phrases from the Bible. This is a great list. I suspect that some people aren't even aware that these well-known words come from the Bible.

Here are some of my favorites, but do go and read Marcel's whole list:

• 42 - "Can a leopard change his spots?" - Jeremiah 13:23
• 41 - "A man after my own heart" - Samuel 13:14 / Acts 13:22
• 38 - "The powers that be" - Romans 13: 1-2
• 37 - "Drop in the bucket" - Isaiah 40:15
• 32 - "Labor of love" - 1 Thessalonians 1:3
• 25 - "No rest for the wicked" or "No rest for the weary" - Isaiah 57:21
• 23 - "Apple of my eye" - Deuteronomy 2:10 / Zechariah 2:8
• 21 - "All things must pass" or "This too shall pass" - Matthew 24:6-8
• 16 - "Ashes to ashes" - Genesis 3:19
• 14 - "A fly in the ointment" - Ecclesiastes 10:1
• 12 - "Signs of the times" - Matthew 16:3
• 11 - "It is better to give than to receive" - Acts 20:35
• 7 - "How the mighty have fallen" - 2 Samuel 1:19
• 6 - "Bite the dust" - Psalms 72: 9
• 5 - "Sour grapes" - Ezekiel 18:2
• 4 - "The writing on the wall" - Daniel 5:5
• 3 - "At my wit's end" - Psalm 107:27
• 1 - "By the skin of our teeth" - Job 19:20

Posted by Michael Barber at 9:32 PM

[RegulatorCountry]

Personally, I find that hilarious.

Good for you, it's a great quality to be able to laugh at oneself, very self-effacing and humble.

[MarkBsnr]

I saw no indication of sarcasm or levity, nor apparently did you, given the nature of your reply.

Correct.

You appear to be apologizing to a Catholic for assuming he (?) was Protestant.

Read it again. I apologized for missing the sarcasm in the post. Ben and I had a brief offline discussion.

But will you be apologizing to Protestants for the erroneous slur?

I have in the past in a similar exchange.

[MarkBsnr]

"Do you have any idea of what the content of these Bibles were?"

Yes, the Tyndale bible was an English translation of Erasmus' greek manuscripts for the New Testament. About 75% of it found its way directly into the 1611 Authorized KJV.

Shall I pause to let you consider the ramifications of your statement here? Let me enumerate the main points: who translated? how accurate were the Greek manuscripts that the translators actually used, and how accurate is the 1611 KJV (are you sure that the original KJV was Authorized? and who was it Authorized by?).

[RegulatorCountry]

I have in the past in a similar exchange.

Great! There should be no issue with offering an apology for erroneously slurring Protestants in this instance, then.

[MarkBsnr]

Certainly.

I apologize for erroneously slurring Protestants in this instance.

[Salvation]

I also wondered about “Take the log out of your eye.”

[Salvation]

Too bad there isn’t something in here about making a mountain out of a molehill.

Come on, guys!

[Salvation]

I know there is something about —

not living in the past

not living in the future

We only have today.

too. But I don’t know if it is condensed all into one verse.

[BenKenobi]

I came here for the lulz...

[Salvation]

“Unless you become as a child you shall not enter the kingdom of heaven.” is another one.

[RegulatorCountry]

Thank you!

[firebrand]

The first Bibles to be printed were also quite valuable.

[MarkBsnr]

You are certainly more than welcome. If I am wrong, then I am wrong.

[RegulatorCountry]

Too bad there isn’t something in here about making a mountain out of a molehill.

Well, there's something about making a molehill out of a mountain.

Zechariah 4:7-10 - Who art thou, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain.

[Salvation]

Maybe they wanted to keep this off their list, but have you ever said about a politician “Are they getting their thirty pieces of silver now or later?”

[firebrand]

God helps those who help themselves.

Worthy of Polonius, along with Socrates' "Know thyself" and Polonius' "To thine own self be true." Or how about "Neither a borrower nor a lender be" as opposed to the Gospel?

[firebrand]

Not from the Bard but from one of his characters, whom Hamlet calls an old fool or something like that.

[MarkBsnr]

Deuteronomy 23: 2 "No one whose testicles have been crushed or whose penis has been cut off may be admitted into the community of the LORD.

Interesting. Therefore no M-F transgenders.

Deuteronomy 25: 11 "When two men are fighting and the wife of one intervenes to save her husband from the blows of his opponent, if she stretches out her hand and seizes the latter by his private parts, 12 you shall chop off her hand without pity.

The wives of those days had interesting practices...

[Salvation]

If I’m not mistaken I read an article once about how many Bible quotations Shakespeare did put into his plays.

[Bob]

funny thing about those eclipses. why don’t we see a square face?

Flat doesn't necessarily mean square. People had been seeing eclipses for centuries, yet still believed that the earth was flat.