6 by understanding the proverbs and parables, the sayings and riddles of the wise.
Proverbs 1:6 Cross References - MSB
Numbers 12:8
8 I speak with him face to face, clearly and not in riddles; he sees the form of the LORD. Why then were you unafraid to speak against My servant Moses?”
Psalms 49:4
4 I will incline my ear to a proverb; I will express my riddle with the harp:
Psalms 78:2
2 I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the beginning,
Ecclesiastes 12:11
11 The words of the wise are like goads, and the anthologies of the masters are like firmly embedded nails driven by a single Shepherd.
Matthew 13:10-17
10 Then the disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Why do You speak to the people in parables?”
11 He replied, “The knowledge of the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them.
12 Whoever has will be given more, and he will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him.
13 This is why I speak to them in parables: ‘Though seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand.’
14 In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled: ‘You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.
15 For this people’s heart has grown callous; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn, and I would heal them.’
16 But blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear.
17 For truly I tell you, many prophets and righteous men longed to see what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it.
Matthew 13:34-35
Matthew 13:51-52
Mark 4:11
11 He replied, “To know the mystery of the kingdom of God has been given to you, but to those on the outside everything is expressed in parables,
Mark 4:34
34 He did not tell them anything without using a parable. But privately He explained everything to His own disciples.
Acts 8:30-31
Hebrews 5:14
14 But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained their senses to distinguish good from evil.
2 Peter 3:16
16 He writes this way in all his letters, speaking in them about such matters. Some parts of his letters are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction.