Give the devil his due?

Question

Is this an idiom that corresponds with "a fool and his money are soon parted?"

Answer 1

No but the devil works through religions is!

Here's one, where there is war there is most likely religion

Where there is suffering there is most likely religion (Spanish inquisition)

Answer 2

I got a question! Why can't you use the word "Devil" in a question here without getting a hundred bible quotes that have nothing to do with what was asked??

No. Devil his due is indeed about honoring your debts, typically more appropriate when you get more than you bargained for or when a deal goes sour. It's about measuring up to your obligations. Fool and his money is a criticism that there are industries that target consumers who are just too stupid not to patronize them. Ironically "You get what you paid for" would correspond to both of them.

Answer 3

Maybe "nuts are broke?" Considering the definition of "idiom" I found on the internet....
An idiom is an expression whose meaning is not compositional—that is, whose meaning does not follow from the meaning of the individual words of which it is composed. For example, the English phrase to kick the bucket means to die. A listener knowing the meaning of kick and bucket will not thereby be able to predict that the expression can mean to die. Idioms are often, though perhaps not universally, classified as figures of speech.

Answer 4

The American Heritage Dictionary gives us this definition: "To give credit to a disagreeable or malevolent person." This would be the more common definition.

According to The Free Dictionary, to give someone his due means "something that you say when you want to describe someone's good qualities after they have done something wrong or after you have criticized them." So what are the devil's good qualities? He is very smart, he is dangerous, he serves G-d's purpose by being an example NOT to follow.

According to Greg Morrow, in his electronic journal, the phrase "give the devil his due" is a cliche. It appears in
Cervantes' _Don Quixote_ I.iii.3, but that may not be the original source.

Answer 5

He will give the Devil his due

Meaning

Literally, pay the devil what you owe him. Used figuratively to mean 'give back what you owe', either money or favours.

Origin

From Shakespeare's Henry IV Part 1:

Constable: I will cap that proverb with 'There is flattery in friendship.'
Orleans: And I will take up that with 'Give the devil his due.'

Answer 6

Re 12:9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
Re 13:7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.
Eph 2:2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
Eph 2:3 Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
2co 4:3 But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:
2co 4:4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.

2co 11:13 For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
2co 11:14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.
2co 11:15 Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.

Answer 7

It means honor him for bringing light and knowledge to humanity, despite the Elohim's best attempt to withold it from their slave labor force in the gardens of Edan.

Answer 8

FAQ: How could a loving God cast people into hell?


"And I have the keys of hell and death, signifies that He alone can save. By "keys" is signified the power of opening and shutting; here the power of opening hell, that man may be brought forth, and of shutting, lest, when he is brought forth, he should enter again. For man is born in evils of all kinds, thus in hell, for evils are hell; he is brought out of it by the Lord, to whom belongs the power of opening it. That by "having the keys of hell and death," is not meant the power of casting into hell, but the power of saving, is because it immediately follows after these words:

Behold, I am alive for ages of ages;

by which is signified that He alone is eternal life (n. 60); and the Lord never casts anyone into hell, but man casts himself. By "keys" is signified the power of opening and shutting, in Revelation also (3:7; 9:1; 20:1; also in Isa. 22:21, 22; in Matt. 16:19; and in Luke 11:52). The power of the Lord is not only over heaven, but also over hell; for hell is kept in order and connection by oppositions against heaven; for which reason, He who rules the one must necessarily rule the other; otherwise man could not be saved; to be saved is to be brought out of hell" (Apocalypse Revealed n. 62).

Answer 9

It's just a saying............... no one should ever give expressions like that or anything talking about the Devil.... there are evil spirits out there and can posses your body........ this is no joke, by those words you are inviting them.

Answer 10

No, it is more like "pay your landlord his rent", or "acknowledge that your lawyer did a good job, and don't b*tch to much about paying his fees". Very similar to the "Render unto Caesar..." saying.