Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
A proverb
The words
General references
Bible References
A proverb
Matthew 13:10
And the disciples came up [and] said to him, "{Why} do you speak to them in parables?"
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,
Acts 8:30
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?"
The words
Ecclesiastes 12:11
The words of the wise [are] like cattle goads; the collections of the sages [are] like pricks inflicted by one shepherd.
Dark
Psalm 49:4
I will incline my ear to a proverb; I will {propound} my riddle on a lyre.
Psalm 78:2
I will offer a parable [with] my mouth. I will pour out riddles from long ago,
Matthew 13:34
Jesus spoke all these [things] to the crowds in parables, and he was saying nothing to them without a parable,
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.
General references
Proverbs 2:9
Then you will understand righteousness and justice and uprightness--every good course--