Luke 8:9
Then his disciples asked him, “What does this parable mean?”
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Luke 8:9
Then his disciples asked him, “What does this parable mean?”
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1 Kings 3:9
Give your servant therefore an understanding heart to judge your people, that I may discern between good and evil; for who is able to judge this great people of yours?”
Proverbs 1:5
that the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; that the man of understanding may attain to sound counsel;
Proverbs 2:1
My son, if you will receive my words, and store up my commandments within you,
Proverbs 4:5
Get wisdom. Get understanding. Don’t forget, and don’t deviate from the words of my mouth.
Proverbs 9:9
Instruct a wise person, and he will be still wiser. Teach a righteous person, and he will increase in learning.
Proverbs 10:14
Wise men lay up knowledge, but the mouth of the foolish is near ruin.
Proverbs 15:14
The heart of one who has understanding seeks knowledge, but the mouths of fools feed on folly.
Proverbs 18:15
The heart of the discerning gets knowledge. The ear of the wise seeks knowledge.
Proverbs 23:23
Buy the truth, and don’t sell it. Get wisdom, discipline, and understanding.
Luke 10:39
She had a sister called Mary, who also sat at Jesus’ feet and heard his word.
James 1:5
But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.
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Psalms 119:97
How I love your law! It is my meditation all day.
Psalms 119:98
Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, for your commandments are always with me.
Psalms 119:99
I have more understanding than all my teachers, for your testimonies are my meditation.
Psalms 119:100
I understand more than the aged, because I have kept your precepts.
Psalms 119:101
I have kept my feet from every evil way, that I might observe your word.
Psalms 119:102
I have not turned away from your ordinances, for you have taught me.
Psalms 119:103
How sweet are your promises to my taste, more than honey to my mouth!
Psalms 119:104
Through your precepts, I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way.
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Ezekiel 24:3
Utter a parable to the rebellious house, and tell them, ‘The Lord Yahweh says, “Put the cauldron on the fire. Put it on, and also pour water into it.
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Hosea 6:3
Let’s acknowledge Yahweh. Let’s press on to know Yahweh. As surely as the sun rises, Yahweh will appear. He will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain that waters the earth.”
John 15:15
No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn’t know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.
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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.
Matthew 13:14
In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says, ‘By hearing you will hear, and will in no way understand; Seeing you will see, and will in no way perceive;
Matthew 13:15
for this people’s heart has grown callous, their ears are dull of hearing, and they have closed their eyes; or else perhaps they might perceive with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and would turn again, and I would heal them.’
Matthew 13:16
“But blessed are your eyes, for they see; and your ears, for they hear.
Matthew 13:17
For most certainly I tell you that many prophets and righteous men desired to see the things which you see, and didn’t see them; and to hear the things which you hear, and didn’t hear them.
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Matthew 15:15
Peter answered him, “Explain the parable to us.”
Mark 7:18
He said to them, “Are you also without understanding? Don’t you perceive that whatever goes into the man from outside can’t defile him,
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Luke 8:1
Soon afterwards, he went about through cities and villages, preaching and bringing the good news of God’s Kingdom. With him were the twelve,
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Luke 8:4
When a great multitude came together and people from every city were coming to him, he spoke by a parable:
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Luke 8:7
Other fell amid the thorns, and the thorns grew with it and choked it.
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Luke 8:14
What fell among the thorns, these are those who have heard, and as they go on their way they are choked with cares, riches, and pleasures of life; and they bring no fruit to maturity.
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Luke 8:15
Those in the good ground, these are those who with an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it tightly, and produce fruit with perseverance.
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2 Timothy 3:15
From infancy, you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
2 Timothy 3:16
Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,
2 Timothy 3:17
that each person who belongs to God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.
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