Understand the language of Scripture Explore idioms, metaphors, euphemisms, hyperbole, and other figures of speech in clear, everyday language. Believers are released from the law’s condemning bond through Christ’s death and belong to the risen Christ to bear fruit for God. Elementary teaching contrasted with instruction for mature believers. A person who hears God’s word without obeying is like someone who glances in a mirror and immediately forgets his appearance. A person is trapped in helpless danger or ruin until God gives stable rescue. The full light, hope, and recognition associated with Christ’s coming dawns in believers. The phrase refers to the authoritative Old Testament witness. The strongest parts of creation cannot stand unchanged before God’s presence and judgment. Creation is pictured trembling and joyfully responding to God’s mighty presence. A person or community experiences overflowing, openly expressed joy. A matter was established by the testimony of two or three witnesses. People were killed by the sword in battle or judgment. Faith in God can face and overcome what is humanly impossible or remove enormous obstacles according to God’s will. The vulnerable or undefended parts of a country were exposed. A person’s “name” can stand for the person himself, his revealed character, authority, ownership, or reputation. The way to life requires entering God’s demanding path, while the popular easy way leads to destruction. All nations are tiny and weightless compared with God’s greatness and authority. A proud nation imagined itself impossibly secure in high, fortified places. Jesus’ kingdom work cannot simply be used as a patch to preserve an incompatible old framework. A person or community renewed through Christ as part of God's coming renewed world. The holy city represents the glorified covenant people dwelling with God, adorned like a bride. The new reality Jesus brings requires a fitting form and cannot be contained by rigid, incompatible structures. Joy, celebration, and honor. God’s covenant blessing is pictured as one cultivated olive tree into which Gentiles are grafted while unbelieving branches are removed. A husband and wife joined in a new, intimate union.Biblical Expressions
Married to Christ
Milk and solid food
Mirror hearer
Miry clay / horrible pit
Morning star rising in hearts
Moses and the Prophets
Mountains melt before the LORD
Mountains skip like animals
Mouth filled with laughter
Mouth of two or three witnesses
Mouth/edge of the sword
Move a mountain
Nakedness of the land
Name means person, authority, or reputation
Narrow gate and broad road
Nations are a drop in a bucket or dust on scales
Nest among the stars / eagle’s nest
New cloth and old garment
New creation
New Jerusalem as bride
New wine and old wineskins
Oil of gladness
Olive tree and grafted branches
One flesh
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