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Proverbs 1:6
to understand a proverb and parables, the words and riddles of the wise.

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Proverbs 1:5
that the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; that the man of understanding may attain to sound counsel;

Mark 4:34
Without a parable he didn’t speak to them; but privately to his own disciples he explained everything.

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Psalms 49:4
I will incline my ear to a proverb. I will solve my riddle on the harp.

Psalms 78:2
I will open my mouth in a parable. I will utter dark sayings of old,

Matthew 13:34
Jesus spoke all these things in parables to the multitudes; and without a parable, he didn’t speak to them,

Matthew 13:35
that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying, “I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world.”

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Matthew 13:11
He answered them, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them.

Matthew 13:12
For whoever has, to him will be given, and he will have abundance; but whoever doesn’t have, from him will be taken away even that which he has.

Matthew 13:13
Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they don’t see, and hearing, they don’t hear, neither do they understand.

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Judges 14:12
Samson said to them, “Let me tell you a riddle now. If you can tell me the answer within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothing;

Ezekiel 17:2
“Son of man, tell a riddle, and speak a parable to the house of Israel;

1 Kings 10:1
When the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning Yahweh’s name, she came to test him with hard questions.

Habakkuk 2:6
Won’t all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, ‘Woe to him who increases that which is not his, and who enriches himself by extortion! How long?’

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Proverbs 22:17
Turn your ear, and listen to the words of the wise. Apply your heart to my teaching.

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Ecclesiastes 8:1
Who is like the wise man? And who knows the interpretation of a thing? A man’s wisdom makes his face shine, and the hardness of his face is changed.

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