Bible Verses About Parables

For everyone who has something will be given more, so that he will have more than enough; but from anyone who has nothing, even what he does have will be taken away.

As for this worthless servant, throw him out in the dark, where people will wail and grind their teeth!'

If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom can't survive;

and if a household is divided against itself, that household can't survive.

Furthermore, no one can break into a strong man's house and make off with his possessions unless he first ties up the strong man. After that, he can ransack his house.

He said to them, "A lamp isn't brought in to be put under a bowl or under the bed, is it? Wouldn't you put it on a lampstand?

And he said, "The Kingdom of God is like a man who scatters seed on the ground.

Nights he sleeps, days he's awake; and meanwhile the seeds sprout and grow -- how, he doesn't know.

By itself the soil produces a crop -- first the stalk, then the head, and finally the full grain in the head.

But as soon as the crop is ready, the man comes with his sickle, because it's harvest-time."

"It's like a man who travels away from home, puts his servants in charge, each with his own task, and tells the doorkeeper to stay alert.

So stay alert! for you don't know when the owner of the house will come,

whether it will be evening, midnight, cockcrow or morning -- you don't want him to come suddenly and find you sleeping!

And what I say to you, I say to everyone: stay alert!"

He also told them a parable: "Can one blind man lead another blind man? Won't they both fall into a pit?

So why do you see the splinter in your brother's eye, but not notice the log in your own eye?

How can you say to your brother, `Brother, let me remove the splinter from your eye,' when you yourself don't see the log in your own eye? You hypocrite! First take the log out of your own eye; then you will see clearly, so that you can remove the splinter from your brother's eye!

"For no good tree produces bad fruit, nor does a bad tree produce good fruit.

Each tree is recognized by its own fruit -- figs aren't picked from thorn bushes, nor grapes from a briar patch.

The good person produces good things from the store of good in his heart, while the evil person produces evil things from the store of evil in his heart. For his mouth speaks what overflows from his heart.

"A certain creditor had two debtors; the one owed ten times as much as the other.

When they were unable to pay him back, he canceled both their debts. Now which of them will love him more?"

Shim`on answered, "I suppose the one for whom he canceled the larger debt." "Your judgment is right," Yeshua said to him.

Then, turning to the woman, he said to Shim`on, "Do you see this woman? I came into your house -- you didn't give me water for my feet, but this woman has washed my feet with her tears and dried them with her hair!

You didn't give me a kiss; but from the time I arrived, this woman has not stopped kissing my feet!