Understand the language of Scripture Explore idioms, metaphors, euphemisms, hyperbole, and other figures of speech in clear, everyday language. Welcome and treat a believer as a fellow servant of Christ with appropriate honor and help. The Lord purifies His people and removes corruption through searching judgment. Encourage, comfort, and renew a person’s deepest affections and strength. God acted faithfully toward a person or covenant commitment at the appointed time. God calls for genuine inward repentance rather than an outward display without a changed heart. Power, honor, authority, protection, or the position of highest favor. A public sign of acceptance, partnership, and shared mission. A person rooted in God’s truth and trust is stable, fruitful, and sustained. God’s life, healing, provision, and unending blessing flow through the restored creation. The Spirit’s life-giving presence will flow through believers in abundant blessing and witness. A person wept deeply and continually over sin, ruin, or disobedience. Christ was the divine source who accompanied and sustained Israel in the wilderness. A poisonous source of unbelief or resentment that grows and harms many people. Believers should be deeply established, steadily strengthened, and growing in Christ and the faith. Hoarded wealth decays and becomes evidence against the unjust rich, pointing to consuming judgment. Public mourning, humiliation, or repentance. The phrase describes a lasting, dependable covenant obligation. A person thought, reasoned, resolved, or said something inwardly. What God says in Scripture is spoken of as though Scripture itself were the speaker or one who foresaw events. The beloved asks for permanent, inward and outward commitment like an ownership seal. The Holy Spirit marks believers as God’s own and guarantees their promised inheritance. Moral sensitivity damaged as though burned and scarred by a hot iron. Final judgment beyond ordinary physical death. To die or experience death.Biblical Expressions
Receive someone in the Lord
Refiner’s fire and launderer’s soap
Refresh the bowels/heart
Remember someone/covenant
Rend the heart, not garments
Right hand
Right hand of fellowship
Righteous person is like a tree by water
River and tree of life
Rivers of living water from the heart
Rivers or streams of tears
Rock was Christ
Root of bitterness
Rooted and built up in Christ
Rust testifies and eats flesh like fire
Sackcloth and ashes
Salt covenant
Say in the heart
Scripture says / foresees
Seal upon heart and arm
Sealed with the Spirit
Seared conscience
Second death
See death
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Plain explanations with linked Scripture passages