Understand the language of Scripture Explore idioms, metaphors, euphemisms, hyperbole, and other figures of speech in clear, everyday language. Innocent or morally upright conduct. Outward religious appearance cannot replace inward justice, mercy, faithfulness, and purity. A person refused help, withheld generosity, or held back what could be given. The faithful examples of Hebrews 11 surround and encourage believers to persevere. Love prevents many offenses from spreading, seeks forgiveness, and refuses to expose or inflame every wrong. Concealing spilled blood means hiding murder or suppressing its cry for justice. To relieve oneself, especially to defecate. Amos compares wealthy, self-indulgent women who oppress the poor to well-fed cattle. The created order suffers under corruption and longs for future liberation. God’s final reward, vindication, and honor are pictured as a victor’s or ruler’s crown. The believer’s old allegiance and sinful rule are decisively judged through union with Christ, and sinful desires must be refused. Sharing the cup and bread expresses participation in Christ and covenant fellowship, while an idol’s table expresses incompatible participation. A divinely assigned experience of judgment or suffering is pictured as a cup that must be drunk. To make or formally establish a covenant. To be deeply convicted, hurt, or enraged by what was heard. The city of Jerusalem and its inhabitants pictured as a woman. Continually, regularly, or throughout both daytime and nighttime. The appointed period of pregnancy, service, life, or waiting reached its end. Apart from Christ people are unresponsive and condemned in sin, while union with Christ brings real spiritual life. Christ’s resurrection defeats death’s power, and sin gives death its condemning sting. Overwhelming trouble, enemies, grief, or judgment threatens to drown the speaker. A person refuses self-rule and places loyalty to Christ above personal demands. God promised an extraordinarily numerous line of descendants. The devil actively seeks vulnerable people to intimidate, tempt, and destroy.Biblical Expressions
Clean hands
Clean outside of cup, dirty inside
Close/shut the hand
Cloud of witnesses
Cover a multitude of sins
Cover blood / hide bloodshed
Cover the feet
Cows of Bashan
Creation groans and labors
Crown of life/righteousness/glory
Crucified with Christ / crucify the flesh
Cup and table as fellowship
Cup of wrath / suffering
Cut a covenant
Cut to the heart
Daughter of Zion/Jerusalem
Day and night
Days fulfilled/completed
Dead in sins / alive to God
Death swallowed up / sting of death
Deep waters / waters to the neck
Deny oneself
Descendants like stars, sand, or dust
Devil prowls like a roaring lion
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