In the Western tradition, many phrases and terms from the Bible are utilized as allegory, metaphors, idioms, or simply to describe the characteristics of a known person or event. They have become an essential element of literature and descriptions of everyday life situations. Here is a list of the more popular references.




- Let There Be Light
- Forbidden Fruit
- Fall from Grace
- By the Sweat of Your Brow & Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust
- My Brother's Keeper
- As Old as Methuselah
- Fire & Brimstone
- Land of Milk & Honey
- The Golden Calf
- An Eye for an Eye, a Tooth for a Tooth
- Manna from Heaven & Man Does Not Live on Bread Alone
- Scapegoat
- A Man after My Own Heart
- How the Mighty Have Fallen
- To Put Words in Someone's Mouth
- Feet of Clay
- The Writing Is on the Wall
- Jezebel & Delilah
- Skin and Bones & Skin of My Teeth
- Weighed in the Balance
- Bite the Dust
- At Wits' End
- Spare the Rod, Spoil the Child
- Pride Goes before a Fall
- There Is Nothing New under the Sun
- For Everything There Is a Season
- Eat, Drink, & Be Merry
- A Fly in the Ointment
- A Drop in a Bucket
- No Rest for the Wicked
- Like a Lamb to the Slaughter