Proverbs 1:6

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

He shall understand a parable, and the interpretation, the words of the wise, and their mysterious sayings.

Cross References

Psalm 78:2

They have given the dead bodies of thy servants to be meat for the fowls of the air: the flesh of thy saints for the beasts of the earth.

Mark 4:11

And he said to them: To you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but to them that are without, all things are done in parables:

Hebrews 5:14

But strong meat is for the perfect; for them who by custom have their senses exercised to the discerning of good and evil.

Psalm 49:4

He shall call heaven from above, and the earth, to judge his people.

Mark 4:34

And without parable he did not speak unto them; but apart, he explained all things to his disciples.

Ecclesiastes 12:11

The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails deeply fastened in, which by the counsel of masters are given from one shepherd.

Numbers 12:8

For I speak to him mouth to mouth, and plainly: and not by riddles and figures doth he see the Lord. Why then were you not afraid to speak ill of my servant Moses?

2 Peter 3:16

As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are certain things hard to be understood, which the unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, to their own destruction.

Proverbs 24:23

These things also to the wise: It is not good to have respect to persons in judgment.