All Phrases With Scriptures
OT Phrases
In the beginning – Genesis 1:1
Let there be light – Genesis 1:3
Let us make man in our own image – Genesis 1:26
Be fruitful and multiply – Genesis 1:28
And Behold, it was very good – Genesis 1:31
God rested – Genesis 2:3
The breath of life – Genesis 2:7
The Garden of Eden – Genesis 2:8
Adam – Genesis 2:19
Spare Rib – Genesis 2:21
Bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh – Genesis 2:23
To leave and cleave – Genesis 2:24
One flesh – Genesis 2:24
They were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed – Genesis 2:25
Forbidden fruit – Genesis 2:17
Pride goeth before a fall – Proverbs 16:18
Fig leaves – Genesis 3:7
Dust to Dust – Genesis 3:19
The sweat of your brow – Genesis 3:19
Eve – Genesis 3:20
East of Eden – Genesis 3:24
Cherubim – Genesis 3:24
How are the mighty fallen – 2 Samuel 1:27
Knowing… In the biblical sense (Carnal knowledge) – Genesis 4:1
Am I my brother’s keeper? – Genesis 4:9
The Land of Nod – Genesis 4:16
Begat – Genesis 5:3
Methuselah – Genesis 5:22
Noah – Genesis 5:29
Two by Two – Genesis 7:9
Forty days and forty nights – Genesis 7:12
Olive branch – Genesis 8:11
Rainbow – Genesis 9:13
Tower of Babel – Genesis 11:9
Abraham – Genesis 12:1
Fear not – Genesis 15:1
Covenant – Genesis 15:18
Circumcision – Genesis 17:10
Sodom and Gomorrah – Genesis 18:20
Fire and brimstone – Genesis 19:24
Test of faith – Genesis 22:1
Coat of many colours – Genesis 37:3
The fat of the land – Genesis 45:18
A stranger in a strange land – Exodus 2:22
Burning bush – Exodus 3:2
I AM WHO I AM – Exodus 3:14
A land flowing with milk and honey – Exodus 3:8
Putting words in his mouth – Exodus 4:15
Let my people go – Exodus 5:1
Taskmasters – Exodus 5:6
Plagues (of biblical proportions) – Exodus 11:1
Hard hearted – Exodus 4:21 (Ezekiel 3:7)
Passover – Exodus 12:11
Red sea – Exodus 13:18
Fleshpots – Exodus 16:3
Bread of heaven (Manna) – Exodus 16:4
On eagle’s wings – Exodus 19:4
Thou shalt – Exodus 20:3
Graven images – Exodus 20:4
I am a jealous God – Exodus 20:5
Taking the LORD’s name in vain – Exodus 20:7
Remember the Sabbath day – Exodus 20:8
Honour thy father and thy mother – Exodus 20:12
Thou shalt not covet – Exodus 20:17
Eye for eye, tooth for tooth – Exodus 21:24
Golden Calf – Exodus 32:4
Stiffnecked – Exodus 32:9
Face to face – Exodus 33:11
Longsuffering – Exodus 34:6
High Priest – Exodus 28:1 (Leviticus 21:10)
Atonement – Leviticus 1:4
Peace offering – Leviticus 3:1
Unclean, unclean – Leviticus 13:45
Scapegoat – Leviticus 16:8
Love thy neighbour – Leviticus 19:18
God bless – Numbers 6:24
Spy out the land – Numbers 13:16
Wilderness wanderings – Numbers 14:13
Brazen serpent – Numbers 21:9
Balaam’s Ass – Numbers 22:21
Fell flat on his face – Numbers 22:31
What hath God wrought – Numbers 23:23
Thou shalt love the LORD thy God – Deuteronomy 6:5
Man does not live by bread alone – Deuteronomy 8:3
The apple of his eye – Deuteronomy 32:10
Kiss of death – Deuteronomy 34:5
Our hearts did melt – Joshua 2:11
Jordan – Joshua 3:1
Shibboleth – Judges 12:6
Samson and Delilah – Judges 16:4
Doing what is right in your own eyes – Judges 21:25
Shelter under his wings – Ruth 2:12
Messiah – 1 Samuel 2:10
God save the king – 1 Samuel 10:24
A man after his own heart – 1 Samuel 13:14
David and Goliath – 1 Samuel 17:4
David and Bathsheba – 2 Samuel 11:2
The way of all the earth – 1 Kings 2:2
Wisdom of Solomon – 1 Kings 4:29
The Queen of Sheba – 1 Kings 10:1
Put your house in order – 2 Kings 20:1
Carried away – 2 Kings 25:21
The LORD gave and the LORD hath taken away – Job 1:21
Miserable comforters – Job 16:2
Man is born to trouble as the sparks fly upwards – Job 5:7
Escaped by the skin of my teeth – Job 19:20
I know that my Redeemer liveth – Job 19:25
Gird up thy loins – Job 38:3
I repent in dust and ashes – Job 42:6
Old and full of days – Job 42:17
Blessed – Psalm 1:1
The heavens declare the glory of God – Psalm 19:1
My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken me – Psalm 22:1
Laughed to scorn – Psalm 22:7
The LORD is my Shepherd – Psalm 23:1
The valley of the shadow – Psalm 23:4
My cup runneth over – Psalm 23:5
The ends of the earth – Psalm 72:8
Bite the dust – Psalm 72:9
Strength to strength – Psalm 84:7
Three score year and ten – Psalm 90:10
As the flower of the field, so he flourisheth – Psalm 103:15
At their wits’ end – Psalm 107:27
They that sow in tears shall reap in joy – Psalm 126:5
Praise the LORD – Psalm 150:1
The words of the wise – Proverbs 1:6
Trust in the LORD with all thine heart – Proverbs 3:5
Spare the rod and spoil the child – Proverbs 13:24
Soft answer turns away wrath – Proverbs 15:1
Vanity of vanities, all is vanity – Ecclesiastes 1:2
There is nothing new under the sun – Ecclesiastes 1:9
To everything there is a season… – Ecclesiastes 3:1
Eat, drink and be merry – Ecclesiastes 8:15
Two are better than one – Ecclesiastes 4:9
A fly in the ointment – Ecclesiastes 10:1
A little bird told me – Ecclesiastes 10:20
Cast thy bread upon the waters – Ecclesiastes 11:1
Of making many books there is no end – Ecclesiastes 12:12
My beloved is mine and I am his – Song of Songs 2:16
White as snow – Isaiah 1:18
It shall come to pass – Isaiah 2:2
Swords into ploughshares – Isaiah 2:4
Woe is me – Isaiah 6:5
Immanuel – Isaiah 7:14
Unto us a child is born – Isaiah 9:6
The lion shall lie down with the lamb – Isaiah 11:6
Take root – Isaiah 37:31
A drop in the bucket – Isaiah 40:15
They shall mount up with wings as eagles – Isaiah 40:31
Seeing eye to eye – Isaiah 52:8
Led like a lamb to the slaughter – Isaiah 53:7
Rise and shine – Isaiah 60:1
Bind up the broken-hearted – Isaiah 61:1
No rest for the wicked – Isaiah 57:21
Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard – Isaiah 64:4
Holier than thou – Isaiah 65:5
A new heavens and a new earth – Isaiah 65:17
Be horribly afraid – Jeremiah 2:12
Can a leopard change its spots? – Jeremiah 13:23
Great is thy faithfulness – Lamentations 3:23
Sour grapes – Ezekiel 18:2
Thus saith the LORD – Ezekiel 37:5
Feet of clay – Daniel 2:33
The writing is on the wall – Daniel 5:5
Daniel in the lion’s den – Daniel 6:7
For ever and ever – Daniel 7:18
Play the harlot – Hosea 3:3
Reap the whirlwind – Hosea 8:7
Jonah and the whale – Jonah 1:17
Sackcloth and ashes – Jonah 3:8
From of old, from everlasting – Micah 5:2
The desire of all nations – Haggai 2:7
Prisoners of hope – Zechariah 9:12
.
Christmas Phrases
Thou shalt call his name JESUS: (for he shall save his people from their sins.) – Matthew 1:21
Hail, thou that art highly favoured, (the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women.) – Luke 1:28
My soul doth magnify the Lord – Luke 1:46
Mine eyes have seen thy salvation – Luke 2:30
Behold there came wise men from the east – Matthew 2:1
Gold and frankincense and myrrh – Matthew 2:11
.
Other Gospel Phrases
In the beginning was the Word – John 1:1
The Word was made flesh – John 1:14
Shining light – John 5:35
Behold the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world – John 1:29
Turning water into wine – John 2:1
Baptism of fire – Matthew 3:11
The heavens opened – Matthew 3:16
It is written – Matthew 4:4
Fishers of men – Matthew 4:19
Physician heal thyself – Luke 4:32
Verily, verily I say unto thee – John 3:3
Ye must be born again – John 3:7
Blessed are the poor in spirit – Matthew 5:3
Blessed are they that mourn – Matthew 5:4
Blessed are the meek – Matthew 5:5
Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled – Matthew 5:6
Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy – Matthew 5:7
Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God – Matthew 5:8
Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God – Matthew 5:9
Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake – Matthew 5:10
The salt of the earth – Matthew 5:13
Ye are the light of the world – Matthew 5:14
Hiding your light under a bushel – Matthew 5:15
Every jot and tittle – Matthew 5:18
Hell fire – Matthew 5:22
Turn the other cheek – Matthew 5:39
Going the extra mile – Matthew 5:41
Love your enemies – Matthew 5:44
Let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth – Matthew 6:3
Our Father which art in heaven – Matthew 6:9
Hallowed be thy name – Matthew 6:9
Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven – Matthew 6:10
Give us this day our daily bread – Matthew 6:11
Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors – Matthew 6:12
Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil – Matthew 6:13
For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen – Matthew 6:13
Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also – Matthew 6:21
Ye cannot serve God and mammon – Matthew 6:24
Take no thought – Matthew 6:25
Consider the lilies – Matthew 6:28
Seek ye first the kingdom of God – Matthew 6:33
Judge not, that ye be not judged – Matthew 7:1
The mote and the beam – Matthew 7:4
Pearls before swine – Matthew 7:6
Seek and ye shall find – Matthew 7:7
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you – Matthew 7:12
Strait and narrow – Matthew 7:13
Wolf in sheep’s clothing – Matthew 7:15
By their fruits ye shall know them – Matthew 7:16
Building on sand – Matthew 7:26
Outer darkness – Matthew 8:12
Weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth – Matthew 8:12
God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son… – John 3:16
…that whosoever believeth in him shall not perish but have everlasting life – John 3:16
O ye of little faith – Matthew 8:26
Be of good cheer – Matthew 9:2
They that are whole need not a physician; but they that are sick – Luke 5:31
Wise as serpents, harmless as doves – Matthew 10:16
I send you forth as lambs among wolves – Matthew 10:16
He that findeth his life shall lose it – Matthew 10:39
The very hairs of your head are all numbered – Matthew 10:30
Shout it from the rooftops – Matthew 10:27
The friend of sinners – Luke 7:34
My name is Legion, for we are many – Mark 5:9
Good Samaritan – Luke 10:33
Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest – Matthew 11:28
He that hath ears to hear, let him hear – Matthew 11:15 (Matthew 13)
Fell by the way side – Matthew 13:4
Pearl of great price – Matthew 13:46
The head of John the Baptist – Mark 6:24
The crumbs under thy table – Matthew 15:27
A man’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions – Luke 12:15
Highways and hedges – Luke 14:23
Cross to bear – Luke 14:27
Lost sheep – Luke 15:4
Prodigal son – Luke 15:12
The far country – Luke 15:13
Safe and sound – Luke 15:27
Fatted calf – Luke 15:23
He was lost and is found – Luke 15:32
Dives and Lazarus – Luke 16:19-20
Feeding the Five Thousand – Mark 6:44
I am the Bread of Life – John 6:35
The keys of the kingdom – Matthew 16:19
Get thee behind me Satan – Matthew 16:23
What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? – Matthew 16:26
Transfigured – Matthew 17:2
Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief – Mark 9:24
He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her – John 8:7
I am the Light of the world – John 8:12
Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free – John 8:32
I am the Good Shepherd – John 10:11
What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder – Matthew 19:6
Suffer little children, and forbid them not – Matthew 19:14
Camel through the eye of a needle – Matthew 19:24
Regeneration – Matthew 19:28
Jesus wept – John 11:35
A millstone about his neck – Matthew 18:6
The last shall be first and the first last – Matthew 20:16
Many are called, few are chosen – Matthew 22:14
Behold, thy King cometh unto thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass – Matthew 21:5
Den of thieves – Matthew 21:13
Out of the mouths of babes – Matthew 21:16
Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s – Mark 12:17
They do not practise what they preach – Matthew 23:3
The blind leading the blind – Matthew 23:16 (Luke 6:39)
Strain at a gnat and swallow a camel – Matthew 23:24
Whited sepulchres – Matthew 23:27
I would have gathered thy children together as a hen gathereth her chickens – Matthew 23:37
Wars and rumours of wars – Mark 13:7
Signs of the times – Matthew 16:3
Talents – Matthew 25:15
Well done, thou good and faithful servant – Matthew 25:21
Sheep and goats – Matthew 25:32
Foot washing – John 13:1
In my Father’s house are many mansions – John 14:2
I am the way, the truth and the life – John 14:6
I am the Vine, ye are the branches – John 15:1
Greater love hath no man than this – John 15:13
Jesus took bread and blessed it – Matthew 26:26
This is my body – Matthew 26:26
This is my blood – Matthew 26:28
Abba, Father – Mark 14:36
Let this cup pass from me – Matthew 26:39
The spirit is willing, the flesh is weak – Matthew 26:41
Betrayed with a kiss – Luke 22:48
Thirty pieces of silver – Matthew 27:3
My kingdom is not of this world – John 18:36
Crucify him, crucify him – Luke 23:21
Pilate washed his hands – Matthew 27:24
Crown of thorns – Matthew 27:29
Hail King of the Jews – Matthew 27:29
Father, forgive them they know not what they do – Luke 23:34
Gave up the ghost – John 19:30
It is finished – John 19:30
He is not here, he is risen – Matthew 28:6
Doubting Thomas – John 20:24
In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost – Matthew 28:19
.
Rest of NT
The fruit of his loins – Acts 2:30
Cut to the heart – Acts 2:37 (Acts 5:33)
Damascus Road Experience – Acts 9:3
Turned the world upside down – Acts 17:6
In him we live and move and have our being – Acts 17:28
It is more blessed to give than to receive – Acts 20:35
Saints – Romans 1:7
A law unto themselves – Romans 2:14
Hope against hope – Romans 4:18
God forbid – Romans 6:2
The wages of sin is death – Romans 6:23
Vengeance is mine – Romans 12:19
O wretched man that I am! – Romans 7:24
The powers that be – Romans 13:1
Stumbling block – 1 Corinthians 1:23
The time is short – 1 Corinthians 7:29
All things to all men – 1 Corinthians 9:22
Faith that can move mountains – 1 Corinthians 13:2
Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things – 1 Corinthians 13:7
Now we see through a glass darkly – 1 Corinthians 13:12
Faith, hope and love – 1 Corinthians 13:13
In the twinkling of an eye – 1 Corinthians 15:52
O death where is thy sting – 1 Corinthians 15:55
Letter of the law – 2 Corinthians 3:6
Suffer fools gladly – 2 Corinthians 11:19
A thorn in my flesh – 2 Corinthians 12:7
Anathema – Galatians 1:8 (1 Corinthians 16:22)
A man reaps what he sows – Galatians 6:7
The unsearchable riches of Christ – Ephesians 3:8
Let not the sun go down on your wrath – Ephesians 4:26
Likeminded – Philippians 2:2
Passeth all understanding – Philippians 4:7
Bowels of mercies – Colossians 3:12
Labour of love – 1 Thessalonians 1:3
Filthy lucre – 1 Timothy 3:3
Money is the root of all evil – 1 Timothy 6:10
Itching ears – 2 Timothy 4:3
Fight the good fight – 2 Timothy 4:7
Finish the course – 2 Timothy 4:7
Keep the faith – 2 Timothy 4:7
Twoedged sword – Hebrews 4:12
Once and for all – Hebrews 10:10
This is “the life” – 1 John 1:2
Dearly beloved – 1 John 4:7
God is love – 1 John 4:8
Alpha and Omega – Revelation 1:8
Bottomless pit – Revelation 9:11
Armageddon – Revelation 16:16
Alleluia – Revelation 19:1
29. A man’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions – Luke 12:15
30. Highways and hedges – Luke 14:23
31. Cross to bear – Luke 14:27
