Understand the language of Scripture Explore idioms, metaphors, euphemisms, hyperbole, and other figures of speech in clear, everyday language. Life, fruitfulness, and faithful discipleship depend on remaining in living union with Christ. Jesus is the exclusive access to the Father, the full revelation of truth, and the giver of life. False teachers are barren, lifeless, and destined for uprooting and judgment. False teachers are unreliable guides headed for darkness and judgment. False teachers promise refreshment but deliver nothing and are driven without faithful direction. False teachers display shameful corruption like surf throwing up dirty foam. Authority to open and close access under a ruler. Resistance to God’s direction only wounds the resister, like an ox kicking a sharp driving stick. The supreme king or lord over all others. The verb “know” refers to sexual relations when the context clearly uses it that way. The earth will be completely filled with knowledge of the LORD’s glory. Intense suffering, longing, or ministry effort is compared with childbirth that moves toward an outcome. Life, prosperity, hope, or a family line comes to an end. A lamp or lampstand pictures visible witness, continued testimony, or a local church. The land was portrayed as consuming people through war, famine, danger, or difficult conditions. A fertile, productive, and desirable land with abundant food. The final stage of God’s redemptive plan has begun and moves toward Christ’s return and completion. The phrase refers to the Old Testament Scriptures as a recognized whole or major division. The law served a temporary supervisory role leading to Christ and exposing the need for faith. A powerful operating principle of sin works through the person’s bodily members and wars against the mind. A person seized, harmed, commissioned, blessed, identified with, or transferred authority to another, depending on context. A small influence spreads through a larger group, whether corrupting or beneficial. Give so quietly that you do not seek praise or dwell on your own generosity. Those spiritually unresponsive can handle ordinary affairs, while the called disciple must give priority to proclaiming God’s kingdom.Biblical Expressions
Jesus is the true vine; believers are branches
Jesus is the way, truth, and life
Jude’s fruitless autumn trees, twice dead
Jude’s wandering stars
Jude’s waterless clouds
Jude’s wild waves
Keys of the kingdom / key of David
Kicked against the goads
King of kings / Lord of lords
Know a woman/man
Knowledge covers earth as waters cover sea
Labor pains
Lamp goes out
Lamp/lampstand as witness or church
Land devours its inhabitants
Land flowing with milk and honey
Last days
Law and Prophets
Law as tutor/guardian
Law in my members
Lay/put a hand on someone
Leaven means permeating influence
Left hand not know what right hand does
Let the dead bury their dead
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