Bible Verses About Parables

for to every one having shall be given, and he shall have overabundance, and from him who is not having, even that which he hath shall be taken from him;

and the unprofitable servant cast ye forth to the outer darkness; there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of the teeth.

and if a kingdom against itself be divided, that kingdom cannot be made to stand;

and if a house against itself be divided, that house cannot be made to stand;

`No one is able the vessels of the strong man--having entered into his house--to spoil, if first he may not bind the strong man, and then his house he will spoil.

And he said to them, `Doth the lamp come that under the measure it may be put, or under the couch--not that it may be put on the lamp-stand?

And he said, `Thus is the reign of God: as if a man may cast the seed on the earth,

and may sleep, and may rise night and day, and the seed spring up and grow, he hath not known how;

for of itself doth the earth bear fruit, first a blade, afterwards an ear, afterwards full corn in the ear;

and whenever the fruit may yield itself, immediately he doth send forth the sickle, because the harvest hath come.'

as a man who is gone abroad, having left his house, and given to his servants the authority, and to each one his work, did command also the porter that he may watch;

watch ye, therefore, for ye have not known when the lord of the house doth come, at even, or at midnight, or at cock-crowing, or at the morning;

lest, having come suddenly, he may find you sleeping;

and what I say to you, I say to all, Watch.'

And he spake a simile to them, `Is blind able to lead blind? shall they not both fall into a pit?

`And why dost thou behold the mote that is in thy brother's eye, and the beam that is in thine own eye dost not consider?

or how art thou able to say to thy brother, Brother, suffer, I may take out the mote that is in thine eye--thyself the beam in thine own eye not beholding? Hypocrite, take first the beam out of thine own eye, and then thou shalt see clearly to take out the mote that is in thy brother's eye.

`For there is not a good tree making bad fruit, nor a bad tree making good fruit;

for each tree from its own fruit is known, for not from thorns do they gather figs, nor from a bramble do they crop a grape.

`The good man out of the good treasure of his heart doth bring forth that which is good; and the evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart doth bring forth that which is evil; for out of the abounding of the heart doth his mouth speak.

`Two debtors were to a certain creditor; the one was owing five hundred denaries, and the other fifty;

and they not having wherewith to give back, he forgave both; which then of them, say thou, will love him more?'

And Simon answering said, `I suppose that to whom he forgave the more;' and he said to him, `Rightly thou didst judge.'

And having turned unto the woman, he said to Simon, `Seest thou this woman? I entered into thy house; water for my feet thou didst not give, but this woman with tears did wet my feet, and with the hairs of her head did wipe;

a kiss to me thou didst not give, but this woman, from what time I came in, did not cease kissing my feet;