Proverbs 1:6
To discern the meaning of a proverb and a parable, the sayings of the wise and their riddles.
Psalm 78:2
I will sing a song that imparts wisdom; I will make insightful observations about the past.
Psalm 49:4
I will learn a song that imparts wisdom; I will then sing my insightful song to the accompaniment of a harp.
Mark 4:11
He said to them, "The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you. But to those outside, everything is in parables,
Numbers 12:8
With him I will speak face to face, openly, and not in riddles; and he will see the form of the Lord. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?"
Ecclesiastes 12:11
The words of the sages are like prods, and the collected sayings are like firmly fixed nails; they are given by one shepherd.
Matthew 13:10-17
Then the disciples came to him and said, "Why do you speak to them in parables?"
Matthew 13:34-35
Jesus spoke all these things in parables to the crowds; he did not speak to them without a parable.
Matthew 13:51-52
"Have you understood all these things?" They replied, "Yes."
Mark 4:34
He did not speak to them without a parable. But privately he explained everything to his own disciples.
Acts 8:30-31
So Philip ran up to it and heard the man reading Isaiah the prophet. He asked him, "Do you understand what you're reading?"
Hebrews 5:14
But solid food is for the mature, whose perceptions are trained by practice to discern both good and evil.
2 Peter 3:16
speaking of these things in all his letters. Some things in these letters are hard to understand, things the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they also do to the rest of the scriptures.