Bible Verses About Parables

I am that vine: ye are the branches: he that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruite: for without me can ye doe nothing.

Then waxed hee an hungred, and would haue eaten: but while they made some thing ready, he fell into a trance.

And hee sawe heauen opened, and a certaine vessell come downe vnto him, as it had bene a great sheete, knit at the foure corners, and was let downe to the earth.

Wherein were all maner of foure footed beastes of the earth, and wilde beastes and creeping things, and foules of the heauen.

And there came a voyce to him, Arise, Peter: kill, and eate.

But Peter sayd, Not so, Lord: for I haue neuer eaten any thing that is polluted, or vncleane.

And the voyce spake vnto him againe the second time, The things that God hath purified, pollute thou not.

This was so done thrise: and the vessell was drawen vp againe into heauen.

For it is written, that Abraham had two sonnes, one by a seruant, and one by a free woman.

But he which was of the seruant, was borne after the flesh: and he which was of the free woman, was borne by promise.

By the which things another thing is meant: for these mothers are the two testaments, the one which is Agar of mount Sina, which gendreth vnto bondage.

(For Agar or Sina is a mountaine in Arabia, and it answereth to Hierusalem which nowe is) and she is in bondage with her children.

But Hierusalem, which is aboue, is free: which is the mother of vs all.

For it is written, Reioyce thou barren that bearest no children: breake forth, and cry, thou that trauailest not: for the desolate hath many moe children, then she which hath an husband.

Therefore, brethren, wee are after the maner of Isaac, children of the promise.

But as then hee that was borne after the flesh, persecuted him that was borne after the Spirit, euen so it is nowe.

But what sayth the Scripture? Put out the seruant and her sonne: for the sonne of the seruant shall not be heire with the sonne of the free woman.

Then brethren, we are not children of the seruant, but of the free woman.

Thou therefore suffer affliction as a good souldier of Iesus Christ.

No man that warreth, entangleth himselfe with the affaires of this life, because he woulde please him that hath chosen him to be a souldier.

And if any man also striue for a Masterie, he is not crowned, except he striue as he ought to doe.

The husbandman must labour before he receiue the fruites.

Notwithstanding in a great house are not onely vessels of gold and of siluer, but also of wood and of earth, and some for honour, and some vnto dishonour.

If any man therefore purge him selfe from these, he shalbe a vessell vnto honour, sanctified, and meete for the Lord, and prepared vnto euery good worke.

For if any heare the woorde, and doe it not, he is like vnto a man, that beholdeth his naturall face in a glasse.