Metaphors

For we are God’s fellow-workers: ye are God’s husbandry, God’s building.

Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost its savor, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out and trodden under foot of men. — read the full passage →

On the morrow he seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold, the Lamb of God, that taketh away the sin of the world!

These are they who are hidden rocks in your love-feasts when they feast with you, shepherds that without fear feed themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;

I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. — read the full passage →

But ye are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that ye may show forth the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:

Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. — read the full passage →

Take heed unto yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit hath made you bishops, to feed the church of the Lord which he purchased with his own blood. — read the full passage →

The elders therefore among you I exhort, who am a fellow-elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, who am also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed: — read the full passage →

For behold, the days are coming, in which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the breasts that never gave suck.

For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ. — read the full passage →

Now on the morrow, as they were on their journey, and drew nigh unto the city, Peter went up upon the housetop to pray, about the sixth hour: — read the full passage →

being built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief corner stone; — read the full passage →

So then, as we have opportunity, let us work that which is good toward all men, and especially toward them that are of the household of the faith.

And they continued stedfastly in the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of bread and the prayers.

On the morrow the multitude that stood on the other side of the sea saw that there was no other boat there, save one, and that Jesus entered not with his disciples into the boat, but that his disciples went away alone — read the full passage →

Wherefore leaving the doctrine of the first principles of Christ, let us press on unto perfection; not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God, — read the full passage →

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, calledto bean apostle, separated unto the gospel of God, — read the full passage →

But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away, than for one tittle of the law to fall.