According to the National Geographic Magazine, the KJV translation introduced 18 classic phrases and made famous more than 240 more from earlier translations. Here are some of the phrases listed in the magazine in order of popularity:
From time to time (Ezekiel 4:10)
Stand in awe (Psalm 4:4)
The root of the matter (Job 19:28)
Suffer little children (Luke 18:16)
Get thee behind me (Luke 4:8)
A thorn in the flesh (2 Corinthians 12:7)
As a lamb to the slaughter (Isaiah 53:7)
How are the mighty fallen (2 Samuel 1:19)
A still small voice (1 Kings 19:12)
Unto the pure all things are pure (Titus 1:15)
Know for a certainty (Joshua 23:13)
A man after his own heart (1 Samuel 13:14)
East of Eden (Genesis 4:16)
No small stir (Acts 12:18)
Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven (Matthew 6:20)
Beat their swords into plowshares (Isaiah 2:4)
Fell flat on his face (Numbers 22:31)
Much study is a weariness of the flesh (Ecclesiastes 12:12)
Set thine house in order (Isaiah 38:1)
Pour out your heart (Psalms 62:8)
To everything there is a season (Ecclesiastes 3:1)
Be horribly afraid (Jeremiah 2:12)
Others include:
Fight the good fight (1 Timothy 6:12)
What comes out of the mouths of babes (Psalms 8:2)
A house divided
A law unto themselves
A stumbling block
A thief in the night
All these things must come to pass (Matthew 24:6)
All things to all men
And the word was made flesh
Apple of his eye
At their wit's end (Psalm 107:27)
Be fruitful and multiply
Born again
Bottomless pit
By their fruits ye shall know them
Charity shall cover the multitude of sins
City set on a hill
Crumbs which fall from ... table
Death, where is thy sting
Den of thieves
Dreamer of dreams
Eat, drink and be merry (Luke 12:19)
Eat the fat of the land (Genesis 45:18)
Eye for an eye
Fallen from grace
Fatted calf
Fell by the way side
Fell on stony ground
Fight the good fight
From strength to strength
Give up the ghost
God forbid
Heart’s desire (Psalms 21:2)
Holier than thou (Isaiah 65:5)
Honour thy father and mother
In the twinkling of an eye
Land of Nod
Left hand know what thy right hand doeth
Let my people go
Let there be light
Love thy neighbour as thyself
Milk and honey
Money is the root of all evil
My brother's keeper
New wine into old bottles
No room for them in the inn
Out of the mouths of babes (Matthew 21:16)
Physician, heal thyself
Propitiation
Put words in his mouth (Exodus 4:15)
Put the words in her mouth (2 Samuel 14:3)
Reap the whirlwind
Scapegoat
See eye to eye (Isaiah 52:8)
Seek and ye shall find
Set thine house in order
Sheep's clothing
Suffer fools gladly
Take root
The blind lead the blind
The last shall be first
The leopard [change] his spots (Jeremiah 13:23)
The lost sheep
The powers that be
The quick and the dead
The signs of the times (Matthew 16:3)
The skin of my teeth (Job 19:20)
The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak (Matthew 26:41)
They know not what they do
Thou shalt not bear false witness
To give than to receive
To the ends of the earth (Zechariah 9:10)
Turn to him the other [cheek]
Turned the world upside down (Acts 17:6)
Two are better than one
Two-edged sword (Proverbs 5:4)
Vengeance is mine
Wandering stars
White as snow
Woe is me
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