Matthew 13:11

The Reason For The Parables

¹⁰ His disciples came up and said to him, "Why do you speak to them in figures?" ¹¹ He answered, "You are permitted to know the secrets of the Kingdom of Heaven, but they are not. ¹² For people who have will have more given to them, and will be plentifully supplied, and from people who have nothing even what they have will be taken away.

Kingdom of Heaven

Jesus

1 John 2:27

You still retain in your hearts the anointing with the Spirit that you received from him, and you do not need to have anyone teach you. But just as that anointing of his teaches you about everything, and as it is true and no falsehood, keep in union with him just as it has taught you to do.

1 Corinthians 2:9-10

But, as the Scripture says, there are things "Which no eye ever saw and no ear ever heard, And never occurred to the human mind, Which God has provided for those who love him."

Matthew 16:17

Jesus answered, "Blessed are you, Simon, son of Jonah, for human nature has not disclosed this to you, but my Father in heaven!

Matthew 19:11

He said to them, "It is not everyone who can accept that, but only those who have a special gift.

Romans 16:25

To him who can make you strong by the good news I bring and the preaching about Jesus Christ, through the disclosure of the secret kept back for long ages but now revealed,

1 Corinthians 2:7

But it is a mysterious divine wisdom that we impart, hitherto kept secret, and destined by God before the world began for our glory.

1 Corinthians 2:14

A material man will not accept what the Spirit of God offers. It seems mere folly to him, and he cannot understand it, because it takes spiritual insight to see its true value.

1 John 2:20

But you have been anointed by the Holy One. You all know the truth;

Matthew 11:25-26

At that same time Jesus said, "I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for hiding all this from the learned and intelligent and revealing it to children.

Mark 4:11

And he said to them, "To you has been intrusted the secret of the reign of God, but to those outsiders, everything is offered in figures,

Luke 8:10

And he said, "You are permitted to know the secrets of the Kingdom of God, but they are given to others in the form of figures, so that they may look and yet not see, and hear and yet not understand.

Luke 10:39-42

She had a sister named Mary, who seated herself at the Master's feet, and listened to what he was saying.

John 6:65

And he added, "This is why I said to you, 'No one can come to me unless he is enabled to do so by the Father.' "

John 7:17

Anyone who resolves to do his will will know whether my teaching comes from God, or originates with me.

Acts 16:14

One of our hearers was a woman named Lydia, a dealer in purple goods, from the town of Thyatira. She was a believer in God, and the Lord touched her heart, and led her to accept Paul's teaching.

Acts 17:11-12

The Jews there were more high-minded than those at Thessalonica, and received the message with great eagerness and studied the Scriptures every day, to find out whether it was true.

1 Corinthians 4:1

The right way for a man to think of us is as Christ's servants, and managers authorized to distribute the secret truths of God.

1 Corinthians 4:7

For who sees anything special in you? And what have you got that you have not been given? But if it has been given you, why do you boast as though it had not been?

1 Corinthians 13:2

If I am inspired to preach and know all the secret truths and possess all knowledge, and if I have such perfect faith that I can move mountains, but have no love, I am nothing.

1 Corinthians 15:51

I will tell you a secret. We shall not all fall asleep, but we shall all be changed,

Ephesians 1:9

He has given us perfect insight into his secret purpose and understanding of it, in following out the design he planned to carry out in Christ,

Ephesians 1:18

enlightening the eyes of your mind so that you may know what the hope is to which he calls you, and how gloriously rich his inheritance is among God's people,

Ephesians 3:3-9

and how the secret was made known to me by revelation, as I have just briefly written.

Ephesians 5:32

This is a great secret, but I understand it of Christ and the church.

Ephesians 6:19

and for me, that when I open my lips I may be given a message, so that I may boldly make known the secret of the good news,

Colossians 2:2

that your hearts may be cheered. I want you to be united by love, and to have all the benefit of assured knowledge in coming to know Christ??3 that divine mystery in which all treasures of wisdom and knowledge are to be found.

1 Timothy 3:9

but holding the divine truth of the faith with a clear conscience.

1 Timothy 3:16

No one can deny the profundity of the divine truth of our religion! "He was revealed in flesh, He was vindicated by the Spirit, He was seen by the angels, He was proclaimed among the heathen, He was believed in throughout the world, He was taken up into glory."

James 1:5

If any one of you is deficient in wisdom, let him ask God who gives generously to everyone, and does not reproach one with it afterward, and he will give it to him.

James 1:16-18

Do not be misled, my dear brothers.