Proverbs 1:6
To understand a proverb, and an enigma: the words of the wise and their parables.
Psalm 78:2
I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter enigmas from ancient time:
Psalm 49:4
I will incline mine ear to a parable: I will open my enigma upon the harp.
Mark 4:11
And he said to them, To you has it been given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but to those without, all are in parables:
Numbers 12:8
Mouth to mouth I will speak to him, and in appearance and not in enigmas; and the portion of Jehovah shall he behold: and wherefore 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 planted of the masters of the gatherings; they were given from one shepherd.
Matthew 13:10-17
And the disciples having come near, said to him, Why speakest thou to them in parables?
Matthew 13:34-35
All these things spake Jesus in parables to the crowds; and without a parable spake he not to them.
Matthew 13:51-52
Jesus says to them, Have ye understood all these? They say to him, Yes, Lord.
Mark 4:34
And without a parable spake he not to them: and apart, he solved all to his disciples.
Acts 8:30-31
And Philip running near, heard him reading the prophet Esaias, and he said, Truly knowest thou what thou readest?
Hebrews 5:14
And firm food is of the perfected, of them by habit having the senses exercised for the separation of good and evil.
2 Peter 3:16
As also in all the epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things difficult to understand, which the unlearned and unstable pervert, as also the rest of the writings, to their own perdition.