Bible Verses About Parables

Because everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but everyone who humbles himself will be exalted.”

“Suppose one of you wants to build a tower. Don’t you sit down and estimate the cost, to see if you have enough capital to complete it?

If you don’t, then when you have laid the foundation but can’t finish, all the onlookers start making fun of you

and say, ‘This is the man who began to build, but couldn’t finish!’

“Or again, suppose one king is going out to wage war with another king. Doesn’t he first sit down and consider whether he, with his ten thousand troops, has enough strength to meet the other one, who is coming against him with twenty thousand?

If he hasn’t, then while the other is still far away, he sends a delegation to inquire about terms for peace.

“So every one of you who doesn’t renounce all that he has cannot be my talmid.

Salt is excellent. But if even the salt becomes tasteless, what can be used to season it?

It is fit for neither soil nor manure — people throw it out. Those who have ears that can hear, let them hear!”

So he told them this parable:

“If one of you has a hundred sheep and loses one of them, doesn’t he leave the other ninety-nine in the desert and go after the lost one until he finds it?

When he does find it, he joyfully hoists it onto his shoulders;

and when he gets home, he calls his friends and neighbors together and says, ‘Come, celebrate with me, because I have found my lost sheep!’

I tell you that in the same way, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who turns to God from his sins than over ninety-nine righteous people who have no need to repent.

“Another example: what woman, if she has ten drachmas and loses one of these valuable coins, won’t light a lamp, sweep the house and search all over until she finds it?

And when she does find it, she calls her friends and neighbors together and says, ‘Come, celebrate with me, because I have found the drachma I lost.’

In the same way, I tell you, there is joy among God’s angels when one sinner repents.”

Again Yeshua said, “A man had two sons.

The younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the share of the estate that will be mine.’ So the father divided the property between them.

As soon as he could convert his share into cash, the younger son left home and went off to a distant country, where he squandered his money in reckless living.

But after he had spent it all, a severe famine arose throughout that country, and he began to feel the pinch.

“So he went and attached himself to one of the citizens of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed pigs.

He longed to fill his stomach with the carob pods the pigs were eating, but no one gave him any.

“At last he came to his senses and said, ‘Any number of my father’s hired workers have food to spare; and here I am, starving to death!

I’m going to get up and go back to my father and say to him, “Father, I have sinned against Heaven and against you;