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.

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41. Am I my brother’s keeper?

Genesis 4:9

42. Boast not thyself of tomorrow.

Proverbs 27:1

43. Seek and ye shall find.

Matthew 7:7

44. Why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?

Matthew 7:3

45. They have sown the wind and they shall reap the whirlwind.

Hosea 8:7

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