Proverbs 1:6

New American Bible - revised edition

To comprehend proverb and byword, the words of the wise and their riddles.

Cross References

Psalm 49:4

My mouth shall speak words of wisdom, my heart shall offer insights.

Psalm 78:2

I will open my mouth in a parable, unfold the puzzling events of the past.

Proverbs 24:23

These also are Words of the Wise: To show partiality in judgment is not good.

Ecclesiastes 12:11

The sayings of the wise are like goads; like fixed spikes are the collected sayings given by one shepherd.

Daniel 8:23

“At the end of their reign, when sinners have reached their measure, There shall arise a king, impudent, and skilled in intrigue.

Numbers 12:8

face to face I speak to him, plainly and not in riddles. The likeness of the Lord he beholds. Why, then, do you not fear to speak against my servant Moses?

Mark 4:11

He answered them, “The mystery of the kingdom of God has been granted to you. But to those outside everything comes in parables,

Mark 4:34

Without parables he did not speak to them, but to his own disciples he explained everything in private. The Calming of a Storm at Sea.

Hebrews 5:14

But solid food is for the mature, for those whose faculties are trained by practice to discern good and evil.

2 Peter 3:16

speaking of these things as he does in all his letters. In them there are some things hard to understand that the ignorant and unstable distort to their own destruction, just as they do the other scriptures.