Proverbs 1:6
to understand a proverb and an allegory, the words of the wise and their enigmas.
Psalm 78:2
I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter riddles from of old,
Psalm 49:4
I will incline mine ear to a parable, I will open my riddle upon the harp.
Mark 4:11
And he said to them, To you is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God; but to them who are without, all things are done in parables,
Numbers 12:8
Mouth to mouth do I speak to him openly, and not in riddles; and the form of Jehovah doth he behold. Why then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant, against Moses?
Ecclesiastes 12:11
The words of the wise are as goads, and the collections of them as nails fastened in: they are given from one shepherd.
Matthew 13:10-17
And the disciples came up and said to him, Why speakest thou to them in parables?
Matthew 13:34-35
All these things Jesus spoke to the crowds in parables, and without a parable he did not speak to them,
Matthew 13:51-52
Jesus says to them, Have ye understood all these things? They say to him, Yea, Lord.
Mark 4:34
but without a parable spoke he not to them; and in private he explained all things to his disciples.
Acts 8:30-31
And Philip, running up, heard him reading the prophet Esaias, and said, Dost thou then know what thou art reading of?
Hebrews 5:14
but solid food belongs to full-grown men, who, on account of habit, have their senses exercised for distinguishing both good and evil.
2 Peter 3:16
as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; among which some things are hard to be understood, which the untaught and ill-established wrest, as also the other scriptures, to their own destruction.