Bible Verses About Parables

“I am the vine and you are the branches. Those who stay united with me, and I with them, are the ones who bear much fruit; because apart from me you can’t do a thing.

He began to feel hungry and wanted something to eat; but while they were preparing the meal, he fell into a trance

in which he saw heaven opened, and something that looked like a large sheet being lowered to the ground by its four corners.

In it were all kinds of four-footed animals, crawling creatures and wild birds.

Then a voice came to him, “Get up, Kefa, slaughter and eat!”

But Kefa said, “No, sir! Absolutely not! I have never eaten food that was unclean or treif.”

The voice spoke to him a second time: “Stop treating as unclean what God has made clean.”

This happened three times, and then the sheet was immediately taken back up into heaven.

It says that Avraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and one by the free woman.

The one by the slave woman was born according to the limited capabilities of human beings, but the one by the free woman was born through the miracle-working power of God fulfilling his promise.

Now, to make a midrash on these things: the two women are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai and bears children for slavery — this is Hagar.

Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia; she corresponds to the present Yerushalayim, for she serves as a slave along with her children.

But the Yerushalayim above is free, and she is our mother;

for the Tanakh says, “Rejoice, you barren woman who does not bear children! Break forth and shout, you who are not in labor! For the deserted wife will have more children than the one whose husband is with her!”

You, brothers, like Yitz’chak, are children referred to in a promise of God.

But just as then the one born according to limited human capability persecuted the one born through the Spirit’s supernatural power, so it is now.

Nevertheless, what does the Tanakh say? “Get rid of the slave woman and her son, for by no means will the son of the slave woman inherit along with the son of the free woman!”

So, brothers, we are children not of the slave woman, but of the free woman.

Accept your share in suffering disgrace as a good soldier of the Messiah Yeshua.

No soldier on duty gets involved with civilian affairs, since he has to please his commanding officer.

Also an athlete can’t win a contest unless he competes according to the rules.

The farmer who has done the hard work should be the first to receive a share of the harvest.

In a large house there are dishes and pots not only of gold and silver, but also of wood and clay. That is, some are meant for honorable use and some for dishonorable.

If a person keeps himself free of defilement by the latter, he will be a vessel set aside for honorable use by the master of the house and ready for every kind of good work.

For whoever hears the Word but doesn’t do what it says is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror,