Proverbs 1:6

English Standard Version 2016

to understand a proverb and a saying, the words of the wise and their riddles.

Cross References

Psalm 78:2

I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings from of old,

Mark 4:11

And he said to them, “To you has been given the secret of the kingdom of God, but for those outside everything is in parables,

Hebrews 5:14

But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil.

Psalm 49:4

I will incline my ear to a proverb; I will solve my riddle to the music of the lyre.

Mark 4:34

He did not speak to them without a parable, but privately to his own disciples he explained everything.

Ecclesiastes 12:11

The words of the wise are like goads, and like nails firmly fixed are the collected sayings; they are given by one Shepherd.

Numbers 12:8

With him I speak mouth to mouth, clearly, and not in riddles, and he beholds the form of the Lord. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?”

2 Peter 3:16

as he does in all his letters when he speaks in them of these matters. There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures.

Proverbs 24:23

These also are sayings of the wise. Partiality in judging is not good.

Daniel 8:23

And at the latter end of their kingdom, when the transgressors have reached their limit, a king of bold face, one who understands riddles, shall arise.