15 Bible Verses about Old Sayings

Behold, everyone who uses proverbs shall use [this] proverb against thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.

He was a mighty hunter before LORD. Therefore it is said, Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before LORD.

And a man from the same place answered and said, And who is their father? Therefore it became a proverb, Is Saul also among the prophets?

And he also stripped off his clothes, and he also prophesied before Samuel, and lay down naked all that day and all that night. Therefore they say, Is Saul also among the prophets?

As says the proverb of the ancients, Out of the wicked comes forth wickedness, but my hand shall not be upon thee.

And David said on that day, Whoever smites the Jebusites, let him get up to the watercourse, and [smite] the lame and the blind, the hated by David's soul, because the blind and the lame say, He cannot come into the house.

Then she spoke, saying, They were accustomed to speak in old time, saying, They shall surely ask [counsel] at Abel, and so they ended [the matter].

And Satan answered LORD, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man has he will give for his life.

Son of man, what is this proverb that ye have in the land of Israel, saying, The days are prolonged, and every vision fails?

What do ye mean, that ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the son's teeth are set on edge?

And he said to them, Ye will doubtless say to me this proverb: Physician, heal thyself. How many things we heard that happened at Capernaum, do also here in thy fatherland.

But that of the TRUE proverb has happened to them, The dog returning to his own vomit, and the sow that washed to wallowing in mire.

For in this the saying is true, One is who sows, and another who reaps.

Tell them therefore, Thus says lord LORD: I will make this proverb to cease, and they shall no more use it as a proverb in Israel, but say to them, The days are at hand, and the fulfillment of every vision.

As I live, says lord LORD, ye shall not have [occasion] any more to use this proverb in Israel.