Sayings and Phrases from Matthew in the King James Bible
Otherwise known as “The Gospel According to St Matthew”
- If you’re not for me you’re against me
- If you’re not with me you’re against me
- Baptism of fire
- Get thee behind me ...
- Star of Bethlehem
- The blind leading the blind
- Issue of blood
- Man shall not live by bread alone
- Our daily bread
- Render unto Caesar
- Turning the other cheek
- Be of good cheer
- Suffer the little children
- Jesus Christ!
- Cornerstone
- Having a cross to bear
- Take up your cross
- Crown of thorns
- The crumbs from the table
- Let this cup pass from me
- Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof
- Let the dead bury the dead
- Den of robbers
- Den of thieves
- Do as you would be done by
- Shake the dust off your feet
- Ears to hear
- Deliver us from evil
- A beam in your own eye
- A mote in the eye
- A plank in your own eye
- A spec in the eye
- Evil eye
- Faith to move mountains
- O ye of little faith!
- Like feeding the five thousand
- Figs from thistles
- The first shall be last and the last shall be first
- Flesh and blood
- Flowers of the field
- By their fruits ye shall know them
- Strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel
- The left hand not knowing what the right is doing
- The haves and have-nots
- Head on a plate
- Honour thy father and mother
- At the eleventh hour
- A house divided against itself cannot stand
- What God joined together let no one put asunder
- Jot or tittle
- A Judas
- Judas kiss
- Judge not that ye be not judged
- Day of judgement
- Keys of heaven
- Keys of the kingdom of heaven
- Till kingdom come
- Laugh to scorn
- Hide your light under a bushel
- Light of the world
- Lilies of the field
- Lip service
- Five loaves and two fishes
- Love thy neighbour
- Love your enemies
- Many are called but few chosen
- Measure for measure
- Go the extra mile
- A millstone around your neck
- Moth and rust that corrupt
- Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings
- Grain of mustard seed
- Eye of a needle
- All these things must come to pass
- Blessed are the peacemakers
- Cast pearls before swine
- Pearl of great price
- Paid the last penny
- The poor you always have with you
- Potter’s field
- The power and the glory
- A prophet without honour
- A prophet without honour in own country
- A prophet without honour in own house
- False prophet
- Rain on the just and on the unjust
- A reed shaken by the wind
- Bruised reed
- Salt of the earth
- Get thee behind me Satan
- Scribes and Pharisees
- Whited sepulchre
- Well done good and faithful servant
- No man can serve two masters
- Lost sheep
- Separate the sheep from the goats
- Sheep and goats
- Sheep without a shepherd
- Sign of the times
- Signs and wonders
- Thirty pieces of silver
- Red sky at night, shepherds’ delight
- Red sky in the morning, shepherds’ warning
- White as snow
- The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak
- Straight and narrow
- The Sun of righteousness
- Live by the sword, die by the sword
- Burying your talents
- Weeping and gnashing of teeth
- Lay up treasures in heaven
- Treasures in heaven
- The tree is known by its fruit
- A brood of vipers
- A generation of vipers
- A voice crying in the wilderness
- Wars and rumours of war
- Wash hands of the matter
- Walk on water
- Broad way
- Falling by the wayside
- Separate the wheat from the chaff
- Wheat and tears
- Going into the wilderness
- Sent into the wilderness
- New wine into old bottles
- Wisdom of Solomon
- Wolf in sheep’s clothing
- Good works
- Let your yes be yes and your no be no
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