Proverbs 1:6

New English Translation

To discern the meaning of a proverb and a parable, the sayings of the wise and their riddles.

Cross References

Psalm 49:4

I will learn a song that imparts wisdom; I will then sing my insightful song to the accompaniment of a harp.

Psalm 78:2

I will sing a song that imparts wisdom; I will make insightful observations about the past.

Proverbs 24:23

These sayings also are from the wise: To show partiality in judgment is terrible:

Ecclesiastes 12:11

The words of the sages are like prods, and the collected sayings are like firmly fixed nails; they are given by one shepherd.

Daniel 8:23

Toward the end of their rule, when rebellious acts are complete, a rash and deceitful king will arise.

Numbers 12:8

With him I will speak face to face, openly, and not in riddles; and he will see the form of the Lord. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?”

Mark 4:11

He said to them, “The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you. But to those outside, everything is in parables,

Mark 4:34

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

Hebrews 5:14

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

2 Peter 3:16

speaking of these things in all his letters. Some things in these letters are hard to understand, things the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they also do to the rest of the scriptures.