This resource is an encouragement to take that bible off the shelf and get into it. Read it. You don't need to be a theologian, you don't even need to study it. Just read and absorb. The first hurdle is just to get God's word into you. You do that by getting into it.
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Common sayings originating in or coinciding with bible passages
| Forbidden Fruit | Gen 2:17;3:3 |
| Adam's Apple | Gen 3:6 |
| Can't Get Blood From a Turnip | Gen 4:3-5 |
| "Not My Turn to Watch Him..." | Gen 4:9 |
| "Don't Mess With Me!" | Gen 4:23-24 |
| "It's All Good" | Gen 50:20 |
| Eye for An Eye | Ex 21:23-24 |
| "Carved in stone..." | Ex 31:18 |
| "Holy Cow!" | Ex 32:8 |
| "...only human..." | Ex 32:22 |
| Ignorance of the Law no Excuse | Lev 5:17 |
| The "Eternal Flame" | Lev 6:13 |
| "Scapegoat" | Lev 16:8 |
| "(More Than You Can) Shake a Stick At" | Lev 27:32 |
| The "Age of Majority" | Numbers 1:3;14:29 |
| Something "Coming Out of Your (Ears)" | Numbers 11:20 |
| "Teachable Moments" | Deut 6:4-9 |
| Apple of The Eye | Deut 32:10 |
| "(Johnny) Come Lately" | Deut 32:17 |
| "Vengeance is Mine, Saith the Lord" | Deut 32:35-36 |
| What Goes Around Comes Around | Deut 32:35 |
| Getting your feet wet | Josh 3:13, 15 |
| "What can I say...?" | Josh 7:8 |
| The "Goyim" | Judges 4:2 |
| (Taking One's) Life in (One's) Hands | Judges 12:3 |
| "(A) Shibboleth" | Judges 12:6 |
| "You S.O.B.!" | I Sam 20:30 |
| "I Don't Know if I'm Coming or Going" | I Kgs 3:7 |
| Ivory Throne (Tower) | II Chr 9:17 |
| "No Skin Off My (His) Nose" | Job 2:4 |
| "It's all good." | II Kgs 4:26 |
| "There's death in the pot!" | II Kgs 4:40 |
| "Master of the house" | Est 1:22 |
| "I Can't Take Any More!" | Job 6:12 |
| "You'll be Sorry When I'm Gone!" | Job 7:21 |
| "You Windbag!" | Job 8:2 |
| Forcing a Smile | Job 9:27 |
| From Womb to Tomb | Job 10:19 |
| "Smart Alecks!" | Job 12:2 |
| "Walk a Mile in My Shoes, Bud!" | Job 12:5 |
| "So What Else is New?" | Job 13:1-2 |
| "How Would You Like it if This Happened to You?" | Job 13:9 |
| "You're a Lot of Help!" | Job 16:1-2 |
| "You Have Yet to Prove It" | Job 19:4 |
| "What About Your Own Guilt?" | Job 19:29 |
| "God is Unfair!" | Job 21:23-26 |
| The Earth's Axis | Job 26:7 |
| The Earth's Circumference | Job 26:10 |
| "I'm Not That Bad" | Job 27:6 |
| Out of the Mouths of Babes | Ps 8:2 |
| "God is Dead" | Ps 10:4 |
| Those Who Pray for Others on Sun and Prey on Them on Mon | Ps 28:3 |
| Out of Sight, Out of Mind | Ps 31:12 |
| "In God (we) I trust." | Ps 56:11 |
| To the Victor Go the Spoils | Ps 68:18 |
| "Bite the Dust" | Ps 72:9 |
| "What About Them, Lord?" | Ps 73:1-8 |
| Life's Threescore and Ten | Ps 90:10 |
| The Four Levels of Learning | Prov 1:1-4 |
| "When I Was Your Age, Son..." | Prov 4:3 |
| The "Eats, Sleeps, Drinks" (Obsessive) Syndrome | Prov 4:16-17 |
| The "Highway to Hell" | Prov 7:27 |
| Cheaters Never Prosper | Prov 10:2 |
| Hard Work Pays | Prov 10:4 |
| Make Hay While the Sun Shines | Prov 10:5 |
| Be Kind to Animals | Prov 12:10 |
| Spare the Rod, Spoil the Child | Prov 13:24 |
| Laughing on the Outside, Crying on the Inside | Prov 14:13 |
| Money Has Friends | Prov 14:20 |
| Type "B" Behavior | Prov 14:30 |
| "Naughty or Nice" | Prov 15:3 |
| The Hungry Work Harder | Prov 16:26 |
| Fairweather Friends | Prov 17:17 |
| The Strong, Silent Type | Prov 17:28 |
| Gossip Destroys | Prov 18:8 |
| As To Raising Kids, Values Better Caught Than Taught | Prov 20:7 |
| Gray Hair an Honor | Prov 20:29 |
| Haste Makes Waste | Prov 21:5 |
| Children Are Like Wet Cement | Prov 22:6 |
| "It's a Jungle Out There!"? | Prov 22:13 |
| Money Flies Away on Wings | Prov 23:5 |
| "I'll Just Have a Little Hair of the Dog that Bit Me" | Prov 23:35 |
| Adversity Tests Integrity | Prov 24:10 |
| Don't Gloat Over Your Enemy's Misfortune | Prov 24:17 |
| Don't Blow Your Own Horn | Prov 25:6 |
| Word Pictures | Prov 25:11 |
| Don't Overstay Your Welcome | Prov 25:17 |
| When the Wise and the Fool Argue, Which is Which? | Prov 26:4 |
| Where There's Smoke, There's Fire | Prov 26:20 |
| What Goes Around, Comes Around | Prov 26:27 |
| Don't Blow Your Own Horn | Prov 27:2 |
| The Kiss of Death | Prov 27:6 |
| A Rude Awakening | Prov 27:14 |
| Cheaters Never Prosper | Prov 28:13 |
| Flattery Will Get You Nowhere | Prov 28:23 |
| "Losing" One's Temper | Prov 29:11 |
| Tattle Tale | Prov 30:10 |
| Sun Comes Up Behind You Again | Eccl 1:5 |
| Nothing New Under the Sun | Eccl 1:9 |
| "My Mind Won't Shut Off at Night!" | Eccl 2:23 |
| It's a "Dog Eat Dog" World | Eccl 4:4 |
| Two Heads Are Better Than One | Eccl 4:9 |
| A Man of Few Words | Eccl 5:2 |
| Beauracracy Promotes Itself | Eccl 5:8 |
| The Working Man's Sleep is Sweet | Eccl 5:12 |
| You Can't Take it With You | Eccl 5:15 |
| Life is What Happens While We're Making Other Plans | Eccl 5:20 |
| Bird in Hand Worth Two in Bush | Eccl 6:9 |
| The Proof of the Pudding is in the Eating | Eccl 7:8 |
| The "Good Old Days" | Eccl 7:10-11 |
| "The Good Die Young" | Eccl 7:15 |
| Eavesdroppers Ultimately Hear Bad Things About Themselves | Eccl 7:21 |
| Slow Justice Gives Liberty to Evil | Eccl 8:11 |
| "Born Crazy" | Eccl 9:3 |
| Whatever You Do, Do It Well | Eccl 9:10 |
| The So-Called "Peter Principle" | Eccl 9:11 |
| A Fly in the Ointment | Eccl 10:1 |
| Work Smart, Not Hard | Eccl 10:10 |
| Too Late to Close the Barn Door | Eccl 10:11 |
| "A Little Bird Told Me" | Eccl 10:20 |
| "Bread on the waters" | Eccl 11:1 |
| "Weak sister" | Song 8:8-9 |
| Beating Swords into Plowshares | Is 2:4 |
| Four Corners of The Earth | Is 11:12 |
| "Lip Service" | Is 29:13 |
| Being a "Doormat" | Is 51:23 |
| Holier Than Thou | Is 65:5 |
| "Mother" Nature | Jer 2:27 |
| "Have it Your Way" | Jer 3:5 |
| Might is not Right | Jer 23:10 |
| "Cutting Corners" | Jer 25:23 |
| Counting Sheep | Jer 33:13 |
| Cutting corners | Jer 49:32 |
| No room to bitch | Lam 3:9 |
| Sour Grapes | Ezek 18:2 |
| "Whitewash" | Ezek 22:28 |
| The Writing on The Wall | Dan 5:5 |
| Like the Back of My Hand | Dan 5:5 |
| The Law of the Medes and Persians (Immutability) | Dan 6:8 |
| Prepare to Meet Your Maker | Amos 4:12 |
| "Wait for it" | Hab 2:3 |
| "The bald eagle" | Micah 1:16 |
| The Other Cheek | Matt 5:39 |
| The Extra Mile | Matt 5:41 |
| Left Hand not Knowing the Right Hand | Matt 6:3 |
| "Kingdom Come" | Matt 6:10 |
| The Golden Rule | Matt 6:12 |
| Don't Borrow Tomorrow's Sorrow | Matt 6:34 |
| The "Straight and Narrow" | Matt 7:13-14 |
| Wolves in Sheep's Clothing | Matt 7:15 |
| The Blind Leading the Blind | Matt 15:14 |
| Red Sky at Night a Delight, at Morning a Warning | Matt 16:1-3 |
| Signs of the Times | Matt 16:3 |
| What God Has Joined, No Can Man Separate | Matt 19:6 |
| Practice What You Preach | Matt 23:3 |
| The Sheep and the Goats | Matt 25:33 |
| Live by the Sword, Die by the Sword | Matt 26:52 |
| "I Wash My Hands of This" | Matt 27:24 |
| The "Four Winds" | Mark 13:27 |
| "Physician, Heal Thyself" | Lk 4:23 |
| Like Father, Like Son | Jn 5:19 |
| Innocent Until Proven Guilty | Jn 7:51 |
| "Who Made You the Boss?" | Acts 7:27 |
| A "Somebody" (A "Bigshot") | Acts 8:9 |
| "Christian" | Acts 11:26 |
| More Blessed to Give Than Receive | Acts 20:35 |
| "I Told You So" | Acts 27:21 |
| "Original" Sin | Rom 5:12,19 |
| Garbage in, garbage out | Rom 8:6 |
| It's All Good | Rom 8:28 |
| The Powers That Be | Rom 13:1 |
| All You Need is Love | Rom 13:9-10 |
| No Man is an Island | Rom 14:7 |
| "Risk your neck..." | Rom 16:4 |
| One Bad Apple Spoils the Whole Bunch | I Cor 5:6 |
| When in Rome, Do as the Romans Do | I Cor 9:19 |
| "Charity" | I Cor 13:13 |
| Don't Go to Bed Angry | Eph 4:26 |
| A "Labor of Love" | I Thess 1:3 |
| If You Don't Work, You Don't Eat | II Thess 3:10 |
| Old Wive's Tales | I Tim 4:7 |
| The Love of Money at the Root of Many Evils | I Tim 6:10 |
| Be Quick to Hear and Slow to Speak | James 1:19 |
| The Weaker Sex | I Pet 3:7 |
| "Crystal" Clear | Rev 21:11 |
| The "Pearly" Gates | Rev 21:21 |