John 16:25 - Hebrew Names version (HNV)

²⁵ I have spoken these things to you in figures of speech. But the time is coming when I will no more speak to you in figures of speech, but will tell you plainly about the Father.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁵ These things have I spoken unto you in proverbs: but the time cometh, when I shall no more speak unto you in proverbs, but I shall shew you plainly of the Father.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁵ I have told you these things in parables (veiled language, allegories, dark sayings); the hour is now coming when I shall no longer speak to you in figures of speech, but I shall tell you about the Father in plain words and openly (without reserve).

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁵ These things have I spoken unto you in dark sayings: the hour cometh, when I shall no more speak unto you in dark sayings, but shall tell you plainly of the Father.

Common English Bible

²⁵ “I’ve been using figures of speech with you. The time is coming when I will no longer speak to you in such analogies. Instead, I will tell you plainly about the Father.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁵ I have spoken these things to you in proverbs. The hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you in proverbs; instead, I will announce to you plainly from the Father.

John 16:25 Tagairtí Cros

Psalm 49:4

I will incline my ear to a proverb. I will open my riddle on the harp.

Psalm 78:2

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

Proverbs 1:6

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

Ezekiel 20:49

Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! they say of me, Isn't he a speaker of parables?

Mark 4:13

He said to them, *Don't you understand this parable? How will you understand all of the parables?

Mark 4:34

Without a parable he didn't speak to them; but privately to his own talmidim he explained all things.

Mark 8:32

He spoke to them openly. Kefa took him, and began to rebuke him.

John 10:24

The Judeans therefore came around him and said to him, *How long will you hold us in suspense? If you are the Messiah, tell us plainly.*

John 10:6

Yeshua spoke this parable to them, but they didn't understand what he was telling them.

John 16:12

*I have yet many things to tell you, but you can't bear them now.

John 16:2

They will put you out of the synagogues. Yes, the time comes that whoever kills you will think that he offers service to God.

John 16:32

Behold, the time is coming, yes, and has now come, that you will be scattered, everyone to his own place, and you will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.

2 Corinthians 4:2

But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.