Charles Plemons' Blog

Many everyday sayings or adages of wisdom come directly from the Bible. Sometimes we know more Scripture than we thought! Here are some examples.

1. A leopard cannot change his spots.

Jeremiah 13:23
23 Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard its spots?
Then may you also do good who are accustomed to do evil.

2. A little bird told me.

Ecclesiastes 10:20
20 Do not curse the king, even in your thought;
Do not curse the rich, even in your bedroom;
For a bird of the air may carry your voice,
And a bird in flight may tell the matter.

3. A little bit here, a little bit there.

Isaiah 28:10
10 For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept,
Line upon line, line upon line,
Here a little, there a little.”

4. Apple of my eye.

Deuteronomy 32:10
10 “He found him in a desert land
And in the wasteland, a howling wilderness;
He encircled him, He instructed him,
He kept him as the apple of His eye.

and also in

Psalm 17:8
8 Keep me as the apple of your eye;
hide me in the shadow of your wings

5. As good as gold.

Job 23:10
10 But He knows the way that I take;
When He has tested me, I shall come forth as gold.

6. As old as the hills.

Job 15:7
7 “Are you the first man who was born?
Or were you made before the hills?

7. At wit’s end.

Psalm 107:27
27 They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man,
And are at their wits’ end.

8. Bite the dust.

Psalm 72:9
9 Those who dwell in the wilderness will bow before Him,
And His enemies will lick the dust.

9. Blessed are the peacemakers.

Matthew 5:9
9 Blessed are the peacemakers,
For they shall be called sons of God.

10. Blind leading the blind.

Matthew 15:14
14 Let them alone. They are blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind leads the blind, both will fall into a ditch.”