John 16:25
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“I have spoken these things to you in figures of speech. An hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you this way, but will tell you plainly about the Father.”
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“I have spoken these things to you in figures of speech. An hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you this way, but will tell you plainly about the Father.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“These things have I spoken unto you in proverbs: but the time cometh, when I shall no more speak unto you in proverbs, but I shall shew you plainly of the Father.”
King James Version · Public Domain“These things have I spoken unto you in dark sayings: the hour cometh, when I shall no more speak unto you in dark sayings, but shall tell you plainly of the Father.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“`These things in similitudes I have spoken to you, but there cometh an hour when no more in similitudes will I speak to you, but freely of the Father, will tell you.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo John 16:25 — 14 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Psalms 49:4I will incline my ear to a proverb; I will express my riddle with the harp:
- Psalms 78:2I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the beginning,
- Proverbs 1:6by understanding the proverbs and parables, the sayings and riddles of the wise.
- Matthew 13:10Then the disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Why do You speak to the people in parables?”
- Matthew 13:34Jesus spoke all these things to the crowds in parables. He did not tell them anything without using a parable.
- Mark 4:13Then Jesus said to them, “Do you not understand this parable? Then how will you understand any of the parables?
- John 10:6Jesus spoke to them using this illustration, but they did not understand what He was telling them.
- John 16:2They will put you out of the synagogues. In fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering a service to God.
- John 16:12I still have much to tell you, but you cannot yet bear to hear it.
- John 16:16In a little while you will see Me no more, and then after a little while you will see Me.”
- John 16:28I came from the Father and entered the world. In turn, I will leave the world and go to the Father.”
- Acts 2:33Exalted, then, to the right hand of God, He has received from the Father the promised Holy Spirit and has poured out what you now see and hear.
- 2 Corinthians 3:12Therefore, since we have such a hope, we are very bold.
- 2 Corinthians 4:2Instead, we have renounced secret and shameful ways. We do not practice deceit, nor do we distort the word of God. On the contrary, by open proclamation of the truth, we commend ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.
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