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Bible Verses About Parables: Wise and foolish builders

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  1. And he said, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: but to others in parables; that seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not understand.

  2. Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.

  3. And he spake many things unto them in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went forth to sow;

  4. And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables?

  5. And when the chief priests and Pharisees had heard his parables, they perceived that he spake of them.

Verses on Wise and foolish builders

  1. 24Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:

    25And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.

    26And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:

    27And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.