Proverbs 1:6

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Proverbs 1:6

To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.

A proverb

Matthew 13:10

Mark 4:11

Acts 8:30

The words

Ecclesiastes 12:11

Dark

2 Peter 3:16

General references

Proverbs 2:9

Bible References

A proverb

And the disciples came and said to Him, “Why do You speak to them in parables?”

And He was saying to them, “To you has been given the mystery of the kingdom of God, but those who are outside get everything in parables,

Philip ran up and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet, and said, “Do you understand what you are reading?”

The words

The words of wise men are like goads, and masters of these collections are like well-driven nails; they are given by one Shepherd.

Dark

I will incline my ear to a proverb;

I will express my riddle on the harp.

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

All these things Jesus spoke to the crowds in parables, and He did not speak to them without a parable.

But solid food is for the mature, who because of practice have their senses trained to discern good and evil.

as also in all his letters, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which the untaught and unstable distort, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction.

General references

Then you will discern righteousness and justice
And equity and every good course.