Proverbs 1:6

Prologue

⁵ a wise man will listen and increase his learning,
and a discerning man will obtain guidance—
⁶ for understanding a proverb or a parable,
the words of the wise, and their riddles. ⁷ The fear of the Lord
is the beginning of knowledge;
fools despise wisdom and discipline.

Words of the Wise

Psalm 78:2

I will declare wise sayings;
I will speak mysteries from the past—

Psalm 49:4

I turn my ear to a proverb;
I explain my riddle with a lyre.

Mark 4:11

He answered them, “The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you, but to those outside, everything comes in parables

Numbers 12:8

I speak with him directly,
openly, and not in riddles;
he sees the form of the Lord.

So why were you not afraid to speak against My servant Moses?”

Ecclesiastes 12:11

The sayings of the wise are like goads, and those from masters of collections are like firmly embedded nails. The sayings are given by one Shepherd.

Matthew 13:10-17

Then the disciples came up and asked Him, “Why do You speak to them in parables?”

Matthew 13:34-35

Jesus told the crowds all these things in parables, and He would not speak anything to them without a parable,

Matthew 13:51-52

“Have you understood all these things?”

“Yes,” they told Him.

Mark 4:34

And He did not speak to them without a parable. Privately, however, He would explain everything to His own disciples.

Acts 8:30-31

When Philip ran up to it, he heard him reading the prophet Isaiah, and said, “Do you understand what you’re reading?”

Hebrews 5:14

But solid food is for the mature—for those whose senses have been trained to distinguish between good and evil.

2 Peter 3:16

He speaks about these things in all his letters in which there are some matters that are hard to understand. The untaught and unstable twist them to their own destruction, as they also do with the rest of the Scriptures.