Proverbs 1:6
To understand a proverb, and a figure, The words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
Psalm 78:2
I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings of old,
Psalm 49:4
I will incline mine ear to a parable: I will open my dark saying upon the harp.
Mark 4:11
And he said unto them, Unto you is given the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all things are done in parables:
Numbers 12:8
with him will I speak mouth to mouth, even manifestly, and not in dark speeches; and the form of Jehovah shall he behold: wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant, against Moses?
Ecclesiastes 12:11
The words of the wise are as goads; and as nails well fastened are the words of the masters of assemblies, which are given from one shepherd.
Matthew 13:10-17
And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables?
Matthew 13:34-35
All these things spake Jesus in parables unto the multitudes; and without a parable spake he nothing unto them:
Matthew 13:51-52
Have ye understood all these things? They say unto him, Yea.
Mark 4:34
and without a parable spake he not unto them: but privately to his own disciples he expounded all things.
Acts 8:30-31
And Philip ran to him, and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet, and said, Understandest thou what thou readest?
Hebrews 5:14
But solid food is for fullgrown men, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.
2 Peter 3:16
as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; wherein are some things hard to be understood, which the ignorant and unstedfast wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.