6 PHRASES YOU PROBABLY DIDN’T KNOW WAS GOTTEN FROM THE BIBLE

Day in day out and even in movies we use phrases and adages to depict or pass certain messages especially to the younger generations without knowing their origin, how they came about or who framed them, for example; how does “kick the bucket” translate to mean “death” as your English teacher taught you? Given that kicking bucket cannot kill you – Anyways that is matter for another article.

So here are a few phrases that you probably didn’t know were gotten from the bible 

   1.      God forbid – Or as the Igbos say “tufiakwa”. Obviously this was gotten from the bible where else will they get it? From Genesis through Revelation it was said over 20 times. Well, ‘God forbid’ that I don’t put it on this list.

   2.      Success has many relatives (paraphrased) – surprised right? Was surprised to when I saw it in Prov. 19 vs. 4. Although the original phrase used is “Success has many friends” depending on the version of the bible, you use this explains why rich men are always surrounded by people - don’t judge those people they are just obeying the bible..lol. The passage also says “but the poor is separated from his neighbour” – that is why that girl refused to allow you to ‘toast’ her is not the witch in your village.. #wink

   3.      Pride goes before a fall (Prov. 11 vs. 2; Prov. 16 vs. 18) – I am sure that your English teacher told you to write a story to portray that and then told you not to copy, don’t mind him/her, he/she copied from the bible so please go ahead and copy your story joor. Teachers live by example, so if they can copy so can you...lol

   4.      Husbandman – for those who have seen the movie “Dumebi the dirty girl” I am sure that just like me, you laughed at her when she used the phrase “husbandman” as a way to depict her inability to speak proper English. Anyways the phrase was gotten from the scripture. Don’t bother going to check for ‘wife-woman’ in the bible it is not there, I have checked....lol

   5.      Beware of dogs (Phil. 3 vs. 2) – Surprised? Shocked? Yeah! So was I when I first saw it. Seeing the sign post on someone’s gate always makes people scared, infact some men put these signs to prevent boys from coming to see their grown up daughter. #just.kidding.

Although this phrase in the bible is used to describe deceptive people but putting this on your gate will definitely chase people away especially we boys.

   6.      Bad company corrupts good manners (1Cor. 15 vs. 33) – so many parents use this to advice their children and as usual our wonderful English teachers have used this to test our writing abilities. These English teachers eeehn! they can copy oh..lol