Proverbs 1:6

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

Cross References

Psalm 49:4

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

Psalm 78:2

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

Proverbs 24:23

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

Ecclesiastes 12:11

The sayings of the wise are like goads, and like nails firmly fixed are the collected sayings that are given by one shepherd.

Daniel 8:23

At the end of their rule, when the transgressions have reached their full measure, a king of bold countenance shall arise, skilled in intrigue.

Numbers 12:8

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

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 comes in parables,

Mark 4:34

he did not speak to them except in parables, but he explained everything in private to his disciples.

Hebrews 5:14

But solid food is for the mature, for those whose faculties have been trained by practice to distinguish good from evil.

2 Peter 3:16

speaking of this as he does in all his letters. There are some things in them hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other scriptures.