Proverbs 1:6
by understanding the proverbs and parables, the sayings and riddles of the wise.
BSB
ASV
To understand a proverb, and a figure, The words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
KJV
To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
Dark sayings - חידת chidoth, enigmas or riddles, in which the Asiatics abounded. I believe parables, such as those delivered by our Lord, nearly express the meaning of the original.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
Hebrews 5:14But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained their senses to distinguish good from evil.
leads to
The natural man does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God. For they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.
but test all things. Hold fast to what is good.
And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight,
Among the mature, however, we speak a message of wisdom—but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.
I ask that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you may know the hope of His calling, the riches of His glorious inheritance in the saints,
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Psalms 78:2I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the beginning,
leads to
Jesus spoke all these things to the crowds in parables. He did not tell them anything without using a parable.
He did not tell them anything without using a parable. But privately He explained everything to His own disciples.
He replied, “The knowledge of the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them.
