Proverbs 1:6
to understand a proverb and a saying, the words of the wise and their riddles.
Psalm 78:2
I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings from of old,
Psalm 49:4
I will incline my ear to a proverb; I will solve my riddle to the music of the lyre.
Mark 4:11
And he said to them, "To you has been given the secret of the kingdom of God, but for those outside everything is in parables,
Numbers 12:8
With him I speak mouth to mouth, clearly, and not in riddles, and he beholds the form of the LORD. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?"
Ecclesiastes 12:11
The words of the wise are like goads, and like nails firmly fixed are the collected sayings; they are given by one Shepherd.
Matthew 13:10-17
Then the disciples came and said to him, "Why do you speak to them in parables?"
Matthew 13:34-35
All these things Jesus said to the crowds in parables; indeed, he said nothing to them without a parable.
Matthew 13:51-52
"Have you understood all these things?" They said to him, "Yes."
Mark 4:34
He did not speak to them without a parable, but privately to his own disciples he explained everything.
Acts 8:30-31
So Philip ran to him and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet and asked, "Do you understand what you are reading?"
Hebrews 5:14
But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil.
2 Peter 3:16
as he does in all his letters when he speaks in them of these matters. There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures.