Bible Verses About Parables

And it was so that the begger died, and was caried by the Angels into Abrahams bosome. The rich man also died, and was buried.

And being in hell in torments, he lift vp his eyes, and sawe Abraham a farre off, and Lazarus in his bosome.

Then he cried, and saide, Father Abraham, haue mercie on mee, and sende Lazarus that hee may dippe the tip of his finger in water, and coole my tongue: for I am tormented in this flame.

But Abraham saide, Sonne, remember that thou in thy life time receiuedst thy pleasures, and likewise Lazarus paines: now therefore is he comforted, and thou art tormented.

Besides all this, betweene you and vs there is a great gulfe set, so that they which would goe from hence to you, can not: neither can they come from thence to vs.

Then he said, I pray thee therfore, father, that thou wouldest sende him to my fathers house,

(For I haue fiue brethren) that he may testifie vnto them, least they also come into this place of torment.

Abraham said vnto him, They haue Moses and the Prophets: let them heare them.

And he sayde, Nay, father Abraham: but if one came vnto them from the dead, they will amend their liues.

Then he saide vnto him, If they heare not Moses and the Prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rise from the dead againe.

And he spake also a parable vnto them, to this ende, that they ought alwayes to pray, and not to waxe faint,

Saying, There was a iudge in a certaine citie, which feared not God, neither reuereced man.

And there was a widowe in that citie, which came vnto him, saying, Doe mee iustice against mine aduersarie.

And hee would not of a long time: but afterward he said with himselfe, Though I feare not God, nor reuerence man,

Yet because this widowe troubleth mee, I will doe her right, lest at the last shee come and make me wearie.

And the Lord said, Heare what the vnrighteous iudge saith.

Now shall not God auenge his elect, which cry day and night vnto him, yea, though he suffer long for them?

I tell you he will auenge them quickly: but when the Sonne of man commeth, shall he finde faith on the earth?

He spake also this parable vnto certaine which trusted in themselues that they were iust, and despised other.

Two men went vp into the Temple to pray: the one a Pharise, and the other a Publican.

The Pharise stoode and prayed thus with himselfe, O God, I thanke thee that I am not as other men, extortioners, vniust, adulterers, or euen as this Publican.

I fast twise in the weeke: I giue tithe of all that euer I possesse.

But the Publican standing a farre off, woulde not lift vp so much as his eyes to heauen, but smote his brest, saying, O God, be mercifull to me a sinner.

I tell you, this man departed to his house iustified, rather then the other: for euery man that exalteth himselfe, shall be brought lowe, and he that humbleth himselfe, shalbe exalted.

He saide therefore, A certaine noble man went into a farre countrey, to receiue for himselfe a kingdome, and so to come againe.