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• "A law unto themselves"
  Romans 2:14
• "A house divided"
  Matthew 12:25, Luke 11:17
• "A man after his own heart"
  1 Samuel 13:14
• "Apple of my eye"
  Deuteronomy 2:10, Zechariah 2:8
• "At my wit's end"
  Psalm 107:27
• "Blind leading the blind"
  Matthew 15:14, Luke 6:39
• "By the skin of our teeth"
  Job 19:20
• "Can a leopard change his spots?" — ("Can the Cushite change his skin or the leopard his spots?")
  Jeremiah 13:23
• "Don't cast your pearls before swine"
  Matthew 7:6
• "Drop in the bucket"
  Isaiah 40:15
• "Dust of the earth"
  Genesis 13:16
• "Eat, drink, and be merry"
  Ecclesiastes 8:15
• "Eye for an eye"
  Exodus 21:24, Leviticus 24:20, Deuteronomy 19:21 Matthew 5:38
• "False prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing"
  Matthew 24:24, Mark 13:22
• "Fell on rocky ground"
  Matthew 13:5
• "Fight the good faith"
  1 Timothy 6:12
• "Golden calf"
  Exodus 32
• "Good Samaritan"
  Luke 10:25-37
• "Hammer swords into plowshares"
  Isaiah 2:4
• "He gave up the ghost"
  Luke 23:46
• "He that is without sin among you, let him cast the first stone"
  John 8:7
• "Handwriting on the wall"
  Daniel 5:5
• "How are the mighty fallen"
  1 Samuel 1:19-27
• "Labor of love"
  1 Thessalonians 1:3
• "Letter of the law"
  2 Corinthians 3:6
• "Many are called, but few are chosen"
  Matthew 22:14
• "Man shall not live by bread alone"
  Deuteronomy 8:3, Matthew 4:4
• "More blessed to give than to receive"
  Acts 20:35
• "My brother's keeper"
  Genesis 4:9
• "No peace for the wicked"
  Isaiah 48:22, Isaiah 57:21
• "Out of the mouths of babes"
  Psalm 8:2
• "Pride goes before a fall"
  Proverbs 16:19
• "Put your house in order"
  2 Kings 20:1, Isaiah 38:1
• "Red sky at morning"
  Matthew 16:3
• "Salt of the earth"
  Matthew 5:13
• "Signs of the times"
  Matthew 16:3
• "Soft answer turns away wrath"
  Proverbs 15:1
• "Stood by the stuff"
  (a reference to troops that guarded supplies) 1 Samuel 25:13, 30:24)
• "Strait and narrow"
  Matthew 7:14
• "Suffer fools gladly"
  2 Corinthians 11:19
• "Sweat of your brow"
  Genesis 3:19
• "The blind leading the blind"
  Matthew 15:14, Luke 6:39
• "The love of money is the root of all evil"
  1 Timothy 6:10
• "The truth shall make you free"
  John 8:32
• "There's nothing new under the sun"
  Ecclesiastes 1:9
• "Thorn in the flesh"
  2 Corinthians 12:7
• "To everything there is a season"
  Ecclesiastes 3:1
• "Twinkling of an eye"
  1 Corinthians 15:52
• "Wars and rumors of wars"
  Matthew 24:26, Mark 13:7
• "Weighed in the balances and found wanting"
  Daniel 5:5
• "What is truth?"
  John 18:38
• "Where there is no vision, the people perish"
  Proverbs 29:18
• "cheer up"
  Deut.24:5
• "apple of my eye"
  Deut.32:10
• Now I "lay me down to sleep"
  Psa.4:8
• "his day is coming"
  Psa.37:13
• "a little birdie told me"
  Eccels.10:20
• "lovesick"
  Song-Sol.2:5
• Taking up the mantel: "He took up also the mantle of Elijah…"
  2 Kings 2
• "let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die."
  Isaiah 22:13
• "We stumble at noon as in the twilight"
  Isaiah 59:10
• "Gird up your loins."
  Jeremiah 1:17
• "Is there no balm in Gilead?"
  Jeremiah 8:22
• "heart of stone"
  Ezekiel 11:19
• "For they sow wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind."
  Hosea 8:7
• "Spare me the sound of your hymns."
  Amos 5:23
• "LORD, how are they increased that trouble me!"
  Psalms 3:1
• "What is man that thou are mindful of him?"
  Psalms 8:4
• "If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?"
  Psalms 11:3
• "the children of men"
  Psalms 8:4
• a voice in the wilderness
  Isaiah 40:3 (King James Version)
• "He bent the sky and came down, thick cloud beneath His feet."
  Psalms 18:9
• "The LORD is my shepherd…"
  Psalms 23
• "The earth is the Lord's and all it holds. "
  Psalms 24
• "Let their way be dark and slippery"
  Psalms 35:6
• "They rewarded me evil for good…"
  Psalms 35:12
• "The meek shall inherit the land."
  Psalms 37:11
• "Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth."
  Matthew 5:5
• "Be not thou afraid when one is made rich… for when he dieth he shall carry nothing away…"
  Psalms 37:16 7
• "Man that is in honor, and understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish."
  Psalms 37:20
• "tender mercies"
  Psalms 51:1, 69:16
• "my sin is ever before me"
  Psalms 51:3
• "Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow."
  Psalms 51:7
• "Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth"
  Psalms 58:6
• "The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked."
  Psalms 58:10
• "He only is my rock and my salvation: he is my defense; I shall not be moved."
  Psalms 62:6
• "pour out your heart"
  Psalms 62:8
• "They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head…"
  Psalms 69:4
• "I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's children."
  Psalms 69:8
• "They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards."
  Psalms 69:12
• "In my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink."
  Psalms 69:21; Mt. 27.48 · Mk. 15.36 · Joh. 19.28, 29
• "Pour out thine indignation upon them…"
  Psalms 69:24
• "Add iniquity unto their iniquity…"
  Psalms 69:27
• "Let them be blotted out of the book of the living…"
  Psalms 69:28; Rev. 3.5 ; 13.8 ; 17.8
• "LORD, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph?"
  Psalms 94:3
• "workers of iniquity"
• "wine that maketh glad the heart of man "
  Psalms 104:15
• "Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow."
  Psalms 109:9
• "The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom."
  Psalms 111:10; Job. 28.28 · Prov. 1.7 ; 9.10
• "The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs."
  Psalms 114:4
• "The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner."
  Psalms 118:22; Lk. 20.17 · 0.1--0.1 ; 1.1 · 1 Pet. 2.7
• "How shall we sing the LORD's song in a strange land?"
  Psalms 137:4
• "I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth."
  Psalms 139:15
• "my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and he in whom I trust;"
  Psalms 144:2
• "Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away."
  Psalms 144:4
• "deliver me from the hand of strange children"
  Psalms 144:11
• "let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause"
  Proverbs 1:11
• "we shall fill our houses with spoil"
  Proverbs 1:13
• "cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse"
  Proverbs 1:14
• "Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird."
  Proverbs 1:17
• "Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways."
  Proverbs 3:31
• "My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding…"
  Proverbs 5:1
• "Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?"
  Proverbs 6:27
• "fools die for want of wisdom"
  Proverbs 10:21
• "A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight."
  Proverbs 11:1
• "As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion."
  Proverbs 11:22
• "inherit the wind"
  Proverbs 11:29
• "Lying lips are abomination to the LORD: but they that deal truly are his delight."
  Proverbs 12:22
• "Where no oxen are, the crib is clean: but much increase is by the strength of the ox."
  Proverbs 14:4
• "Better is a dinner of herbs where love is…"
  Proverbs 15:17
• "Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall."
  Proverbs 16:18
• "The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness."
  Proverbs 16:31
• "He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty…"
  Proverbs 16:32
• "Whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his Maker: and he that is glad at calamities shall not be unpunished."
  Proverbs 17:5
• "Children's children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers."
  Proverbs 17:6
• "Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly."
  Proverbs 17:12
• "He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, even they both are abomination to the LORD."
  Proverbs 17:15
• "A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones."
  Proverbs 17:22
• "He that hath knowledge spareth his words: and a man of understanding is of an excellent spirit. Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding."
  Proverbs 17:27–28
• "When the wicked cometh, then cometh also contempt…"
  Proverbs 18:3
• "A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul."
  Proverbs 18:7
• "Before destruction the heart of man is haughty;…"
  Proverbs 18:12
• "He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him."
  Proverbs 18:13
• "Death and life are in the power of the tongue…"
  Proverbs 18:21
• "Wealth maketh many friends; but the poor is separated from his neighbor."
  Proverbs 19:4
• "A false witness shall not be unpunished; and he that speaketh lies shall not escape."
  Proverbs 19:5
• "Every man is a friend to him that giveth gifts."
  Proverbs 19:6
• "A false witness shall not be unpunished; and he that speaketh lies shall perish."
  Proverbs 19:9
• "The king's wrath is as the roaring of a lion; but his favor is as dew upon the grass."
  Proverbs 19:12
• "Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterward his mouth shall be filled with gravel."
  Proverbs 20:17
• "The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men is the gray head."
  Proverbs 20:29
• "To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice."
  Proverbs 21:3
• "It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house."
  Proverbs 21:9
• "Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard."
  Proverbs 21:13
• "It is joy to the just to do judgment: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity."
  Proverbs 21:15
• "It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman."
  Proverbs 21:19
• "The desire of the slothful killeth him; for his hands refuse to labor."
  Proverbs 21:25
• "A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches…"
  Proverbs 22:1
• "Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it."
  Proverbs 22:6
• "The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender."
  Proverbs 22:7
• "Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him."
  Proverbs 22:15
• "He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, … shall surely come to want."
  Proverbs 22:16
• "Bow down thine ear, and hear the words of the wise…"
  Proverbs 22:17
• "Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go; lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul."
  Proverbs 22:24–25
• "Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat."
  Proverbs 23:3
• "Labor not to be rich; cease from thine own wisdom. "
  Proverbs 23:4
• "Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words."
  Proverbs 23:9
• "Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die. Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell."
  Proverbs 23:13–4
• "the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty "
  Proverbs 23:21
• "The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him. "
  Proverbs 23:24
• "For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit. "
  Proverbs 23:27
• "Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things."
  Proverbs 23:33

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