Proverbs 1:6
For understanding a proverb and its sweetness, Words of the wise and their acute sayings.
Psalm 78:2
I open with a simile my mouth, I bring forth hidden things of old,
Psalm 49:4
I incline to a simile mine ear, I open with a harp my riddle:
Mark 4:11
and he said to them, 'To you it hath been given to know the secret of the reign of God, but to those who are without, in similes are all the things done;
Numbers 12:8
mouth unto mouth I speak with him, and by an appearance, and not in riddles; and the form of Jehovah he beholdeth attentively; and wherefore have ye not been afraid to speak against My servant -- against Moses?'
Ecclesiastes 12:11
Words of the wise are as goads, and as fences planted by the masters of collections, they have been given by one shepherd.
Matthew 13:10-17
And the disciples having come near, said to him, 'Wherefore in similes dost thou speak to them?'
Matthew 13:34-35
All these things spake Jesus in similes to the multitudes, and without a simile he was not speaking to them,
Matthew 13:51-52
Jesus saith to them, 'Did ye understand all these?' They say to him, 'Yes, sir.'
Mark 4:34
and without a simile he was not speaking to them, and by themselves, to his disciples he was expounding all.
Acts 8:30-31
and Philip having run near, heard him reading the prophet Isaiah, and said, 'Dost thou then know what thou dost read?'
Hebrews 5:14
and of perfect men is the strong food, who because of the use are having the senses exercised, unto the discernment both of good and of evil.
2 Peter 3:16
as also in all the epistles, speaking in them concerning these things, among which things are certain hard to be understood, which the untaught and unstable do wrest, as also the other Writings, unto their own destruction.