“parable” in the Douay-Rheims Bible
The word parable appears 50 times in the Douay-Rheims Bible. The first 50 matching verses are shown below.
- Numbers 23:7 And taking up his parable, he said: Balac king of the Moabites hath brought me from Aram, from the mountains of the east: Come, said he, and curse Jacob: make haste and detest Israel.
- Numbers 23:18 But he taking up his parable, said: Stand, O Balac, and give ear: hear, thou son of Sephor:
- Numbers 24:3 He took up his parable and said: Balaam the son of Beor hath said: The man hath said, whose eye is stopped up:
- Numbers 24:15 Therefore taking up his parable, again he said: Balaam the son of Beor hath said: The man whose eye is stopped up, hath said:
- Numbers 24:20 And when he saw Amalec, he took up his parable, and said: Amalec the beginning of nations, whose latter ends shall be destroyed.
- Numbers 24:21 He saw also the Cinite: and took up his parable, and said: Thy habitation indeed is strong: but though thou build thy nest in a rock,
- Numbers 24:23 And taking up his parable, again he said: Alas, who shall live when God shall do these things?
- Job 27:1 Job also added, taking up his parable, and said:
- Job 29:1 Job also added, taking up his parable, and said:
- Psalms 48:5 I will incline my ear to a parable; I will open my proposition on the psaltery.
- Proverbs 1:6 He shall understand a parable and the interpretation, the words of the wise, and their mysterious sayings.
- Proverbs 26:7 As a lame man hath fair legs in vain: so a parable is unseemly in the mouth of fools.
- Proverbs 26:9 As if a thorn should grow in the hand of a drunkard: so is a parable in the mouth of fools.
- Wisdom 5:3 Saying within themselves, repenting, and groaning for anguish of spirit: These are they, whom we had sometime in derision, and for a parable of reproach.
- Ecclesiasticus 20:22 A parable coming out of a fool’s mouth shall be rejected: for he doth not speak it in due season.
- Isaias 14:4 Thou shalt take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and shalt say: How is the oppressor come to nothing, the tribute hath ceased?
- Ezechiel 17:2 Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable to the house of Israel,
- Ezechiel 18:2 That you use among you this parable as a proverb in the land of Israel, saying: The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the teeth of the children are set on edge.
- Ezechiel 18:3 As I live, saith the Lord God, this parable shall be no more to you a proverb in Israel.
- Ezechiel 24:3 And thou shalt speak by a figure a parable to the provoking house, and say to them: Thus saith the Lord God: Set on a pot, set it on, I say, and put water in it.
- Micheas 2:4 In that day a parable shall be taken up upon you, and a song shall be sung with melody by them that say: We are laid waste and spoiled: the portion of my people is changed: how shall he depart from me, whereas he is returning that will divide our land?
- Habacuc 2:6 Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a dark speech concerning him: and it shall be said: Woe to him that heapeth together that which is not his own? how long also doth he load himself with thick clay?
- Matthew 13:18 Hear you therefore the parable of the sower.
- Matthew 13:24 Another parable he proposed to them, saying: The kingdom of heaven is likened to a man that sowed good seed in his field.
- Matthew 13:31 Another parable he proposed unto them, saying: The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took and sowed in his field.
- Matthew 13:33 Another parable he spoke to them: The kingdom of heaven is like to leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, until the whole was leavened.
- Matthew 13:36 Then having sent away the multitudes, he came into the house, and his disciples came to him, saying: Expound to us the parable of the cockle of the field.
- Matthew 15:15 And Peter answering, said to him: Expound to us this parable.
- Matthew 21:33 Hear ye another parable. There was a man, an householder, who planted a vineyard and made a hedge round about it and dug in it a press and built a tower and let it out to husbandmen and went into a strange country.
- Matthew 24:32 And from the fig tree learn a parable: When the branch thereof is now tender and the leaves come forth, you know that summer is nigh.
- Mark 4:10 And when he was alone, the twelve that were with him asked him the parable.
- Mark 4:13 And he saith to them: Are you ignorant of this, parable? and how shall you know all parables?
- Mark 4:30 And he said: To what shall we liken the kingdom of God? or to what parable shall we compare it?
- Mark 4:34 And without parable he did not speak unto them; but apart, he explained all things to his disciples.
- Mark 7:17 And when he was come into the house from the multitude, his disciples asked him the parable.
- Mark 12:12 And they sought to lay hands on him: but they feared the people. For they knew that he spoke this parable to them. And leaving him, they went their way.
- Mark 13:28 Now of the fig tree learn ye a parable. When the branch thereof is now tender and the leaves are come forth, you know that summer is very near.
- Luke 8:9 And his disciples asked him what this parable might be.
- Luke 8:11 Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.
- Luke 12:41 And Peter said to him: Lord, dost thou speak this parable to us, or likewise to all?
- Luke 13:6 He spoke also this parable: A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard: and he came seeking fruit on it and found none.
- Luke 14:7 And he spoke a parable also to them that were invited, marking how they chose the first seats at the table, saying to them:
- Luke 15:3 And he spoke to them this parable, saying:
- Luke 18:1 And he spoke also a parable to them, that we ought always to pray and not to faint,
- Luke 18:9 And to some who trusted in themselves as just and despised others, he spoke also this parable:
- Luke 19:11 As they were hearing these things, he added and spoke a parable, because he was nigh to Jerusalem and because they thought that the kingdom of God should immediately be manifested.
- Luke 20:9 And he began to speak to the people this parable: A certain man planted a vineyard and let it out to husbandmen: and he was abroad for a long time.
- Luke 20:19 And the chief priests and the scribes sought to lay hands on him the same hour: but they feared the people, for they knew that he spoke this parable to them.
- Hebrews 9:9 Which is a parable of the time present: according to which gifts and sacrifices are offered, which cannot, as to the conscience, make him perfect that serveth, only in meats and in drinks,
- Hebrews 11:19 Accounting that God is able to raise up even from the dead. Whereupon also he received him for a parable.