Proverbs 1:6

Prologue

⁵ A wise man will hear and increase in learning,
And a man of understanding will acquire wise counsel,
⁶ To understand a proverb and a figure,
The words of the wise and their riddles.
⁷ The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge;
Fools despise wisdom and instruction.

Words of the Wise

Psalm 78:2

I will open my mouth in a parable;
I will utter dark sayings of old,

Psalm 49:4

I will incline my ear to a proverb;
I will express my riddle on the harp.

Mark 4:11

And He was saying to them, “To you has been given the mystery of the kingdom of God, but those who are outside get everything in parables,

Numbers 12:8

With him I speak mouth to mouth,
Even openly, and not in dark sayings,
And he beholds the form of the Lord.
Why then were you not afraid
To speak against My servant, against Moses?”

Ecclesiastes 12:11

The words of wise men are like goads, and masters of these collections are like well-driven nails; they are given by one Shepherd.

Matthew 13:10-17

And the disciples came and said to Him, “Why do You speak to them in parables?”

Matthew 13:34-35

All these things Jesus spoke to the crowds in parables, and He did not speak to them without a parable.

Matthew 13:51-52

“Have you understood all these things?” They *said to Him, “Yes.”

Mark 4:34

and He did not speak to them without a parable; but He was explaining everything privately to His own disciples.

Acts 8:30-31

Philip ran up and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet, and said, “Do you understand what you are reading?”

Hebrews 5:14

But solid food is for the mature, who because of practice have their senses trained to discern good and evil.

2 Peter 3:16

as also in all his letters, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which the untaught and unstable distort, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction.