"Give glory to the LORD your God, before He cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, He turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness" (Jeremiah 13:16).

"As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance" (I Peter 1:14).

A graphic figure of speech often used in the Bible is the attribution of character traits to parental inheritance.

"Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew Him not" (I John 3:1).

"And the king commanded, and they brought great stones, costly stones, and hewed stones, to lay the foundation of the house. . . .

"Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth" (II Timothy 2:15).