With my knowledge I will speak comprehensively, ¹  and to my Creator I will ascribe righteousness. ² 

He taught them many things in parables, ¹  and in his teaching said to them:

Jesus spoke all these things in parables to the crowds; he did not speak to them without a parable.

So ¹  he called them and spoke to them in parables: ²  “How can Satan cast out Satan?

So ¹  with many parables like these, he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear.

They are illustrations of this true proverb: ¹  “A dog returns to its own vomit,” ²  and “A sow, after washing herself, ³  wallows in the mire.” ⁴ 

Then ¹  he began to speak to them in parables: “A man planted a vineyard. ²  He put a fence around it, dug a pit for its winepress, and built a watchtower. Then ³  he leased it to tenant farmers ⁴  and went on a journey.

I have applied these things to myself and Apollos because of you, brothers and sisters, ¹  so that through us you may learn “not to go beyond what is written,” so that none of you will be puffed up in favor of the one against the other.