Font Size
Ezekiel 17:2
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Ezekiel 17:2
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
2 O mortal, propound a riddle and speak an allegory to the house of Israel.(A)
Read full chapter
Ezekiel 17:2
New International Version
Ezekiel 17:2
New International Version
2 “Son of man, set forth an allegory and tell it to the Israelites as a parable.(A)
Matthew 13:13
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Matthew 13:13
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
13 The reason I speak to them in parables is that ‘seeing they do not perceive, and hearing they do not listen, nor do they understand.’(A)
Read full chapter
Matthew 13:13
New International Version
Matthew 13:13
New International Version
13 This is why I speak to them in parables:
“Though seeing, they do not see;
though hearing, they do not hear or understand.(A)
Matthew 13:14
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Matthew 13:14
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
14 With them indeed is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah that says:
‘You will indeed listen but never understand,
and you will indeed look but never perceive.(A)
Matthew 13:14
New International Version
Matthew 13:14
New International Version
14 In them is fulfilled(A) the prophecy of Isaiah:
“‘You will be ever hearing but never understanding;
you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition (NRSVUE)
New Revised Standard Version, Updated Edition. Copyright © 2021 National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.
New International Version (NIV) 
Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV® Copyright ©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.
NIV Reverse Interlinear Bible: English to Hebrew and English to Greek. Copyright © 2019 by Zondervan.