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Proverbs and Quotations

Apple of My Eye

See if you can imagine an appropriate situation for these phrases, all taken from the English Bible published in 1611 and all still used in everyday speech.

21. Heap coals of fire upon his head.

Proverbs 25:22

22. Physician, heal thyself.

Luke 4:23

23. Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein.

Proverbs 26:27

24. The salt of the earth.

Matthew 5:13

25. From the sole of his foot to the crown of his head.

2 Samuel 14:25

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