Bible Verses About Parables

And I say vnto you, Aske, and it shall be giuen you: seeke, and yee shall finde: knocke, and it shalbe opened vnto you.

When a strong man armed keepeth his palace, the thinges that hee possesseth, are in peace.

No man when he hath lighted a candle, putteth it in a priuie place, neither vnder a bushell: but on a candlesticke, that they which come in, may see the light.

The light of the bodie is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, then is thy whole bodie light: but if thine eye be euill, then thy bodie is darke.

Take heede therefore, that the light which is in thee, be not darkenesse.

If therefore thy whole body shall be light, hauing no part darke, then shall all be light, euen as when a candle doth light thee with the brightnesse.

And he put foorth a parable vnto them, saying, The grounde of a certaine riche man brought foorth fruites plenteously.

Therefore he thought with himselfe, saying, What shall I doe, because I haue no roume, where I may lay vp my fruites?

And he said, This wil I do, I wil pul downe my barnes, and builde greater, and therein will I gather all my fruites, and my goods.

And I wil say to my soule, Soule, thou hast much goods laide vp for many yeeres: liue at ease, eate, drinke and take thy pastime.

But God said vnto him, O foole, this night wil they fetch away thy soule from thee: then whose shall those things be which thou hast prouided?

So is he that gathereth riches to himselfe, and is not riche in God.

Then said he to the people, When ye see a cloude rise out of the West, straightway ye say, A shower commeth: and so it is.

And when ye see the South winde blowe, ye say, that it wilbe hoate: and it commeth to passe.

Hypocrites, ye can discerne the face of the earth, and of the skie: but why discerne ye not this time?

Yea, and why iudge ye not of your selues what is right?

He spake also this parable, A certaine man had a figge tree planted in his vineyard: and he came and sought fruite thereon, and found none.

Then said he to the dresser of his vineyard, Behold, this three yeeres haue I come and sought fruite of this figge tree, and finde none: cut it downe: why keepeth it also the ground barren?

And he answered, and said vnto him, Lord, let it alone this yeere also, till I digge round about it, and doung it.

And if it beare fruite, well: if not, then after thou shalt cut it downe.

It is like a graine of mustard seede, which a man tooke and sowed in his garden, and it grewe, and waxed a great tree, and the foules of the heauen made nestes in the branches thereof.

He spake also a parable to the ghestes, when he marked howe they chose out the chiefe roomes, and said vnto them,

When thou shalt be bidden of any man to a wedding, set not thy selfe downe in the chiefest place, lest a more honourable man then thou, be bidden of him,

And he that bade both him and thee, come, and say to thee, Giue this man roome, and thou then begin with shame to take the lowest roome.

But when thou art bidden, goe and sit downe in the lowest roome, that when he that bade thee, cometh, he may say vnto thee, Friende, sit vp hier: then shalt thou haue worship in the presence of them that sit at table with thee.