Proverbs 1:6
to understand a proverb and an expression, words of wisdom and their riddles.
Psalm 78:2
I will offer a parable [with] my mouth. I will pour out riddles from long ago,
Psalm 49:4
I will incline my ear to a proverb; I will {propound} my riddle on a lyre.
Mark 4:11
And he said to them, "To you has been granted the secret of the kingdom of God, but to those who are outside everything is in parables,
Numbers 12:8
I will speak to him mouth to mouth, [in] clearness, not in riddles; and he will look at the form of Yahweh. Why were you not afraid to speak against my servant, against Moses?"
Ecclesiastes 12:11
The words of the wise [are] like cattle goads; the collections of the sages [are] like pricks inflicted by one shepherd.
Matthew 13:10-17
And the disciples came up [and] said to him, "{Why} do you speak to them in parables?"
Matthew 13:34-35
Jesus spoke all these [things] to the crowds in parables, and he was saying nothing 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 in private he explained everything to his own disciples.
Acts 8:30-31
So Philip ran up to [it] [and] heard him reading aloud Isaiah the prophet and said, "So then, do you understand what you are reading?"
Hebrews 5:14
But solid food is for the mature, who because of practice have trained their faculties for the distinguishing of both good and evil.
2 Peter 3:16
as [he does] also in all his letters, speaking in them about these [things], in which there are some [things] hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable distort to their own destruction, as [they] also [do] the rest of the scriptures.