Which literary style comments on the human condition using learned, quotable sayings?

Which writing style foretold the consequences of actions of the Israelites and called them to repentance and right worship of God, these continue to ward us today and tell of the fulfillment of God's promises?

Genesis 12:1-4 - The LORD said to Abram: Go forth from your land, your relatives, and from your father’s house to a land that I will show you. I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you. All the families of the earth will find blessing in you. Abram went as the LORD directed him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran.

Which writing style communicates how best to love God and each other, helping free us from sin and direct us toward God?

Revelation 12:1-3 - A great sign appeared in the sky, a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. She was with child and wailed aloud in pain as she labored to give birth. Then another sign appeared in the sky; it was a huge red dragon, with seven heads and ten horns, and on its heads were seven diadems.

Which writing style records family ancestries and reveals important family connections between individuals in the Bible?

John 13:34 - I give you a new commandment: love one another. As I have loved you, so you also should love one another. This is how all will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.

Proverbs 19:1 - Better to be poor and walk in integrity

than rich and crooked in one’s ways.

1 Timothy 1:1-2 - Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by command of God our savior and of Christ Jesus our hope, to Timothy, my true child in faith: grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

Which writing style includes letters written by St. Paul and other Apostles to early Christians encouraging them in their faith, offering advice and teachings, which often still apply to us today?

Which writing style uses metaphorical and artistic language to communicate basic truths about God and human nature?

Which writing style communicates truths about God and our salvation through visions, often including strange imagery and symbolism?

Jonah 3:4-5 - Jonah began his journey through the city, and when he had gone only a single day’s walk announcing, “Forty days more and Nineveh shall be overthrown,” the people of Nineveh believed God; they proclaimed a fast and all of them, great and small,* put on sackcloth.

Which writing style was often used by Jesus to teach His disciples, using short stories that communicate layers of truth?

Psalm 78:1-3 - Attend, my people, to my teaching;

listen to the words of my mouth.

I will open my mouth in a parable,

unfold the puzzling events of the past.

What we have heard and know;

things our ancestors have recounted to us.

Matthew 1:14-16 - Azor the father of Zadok. Zadok became the father of Achim, Achim the father of Eliud, Eliud the father of Eleazar. Eleazar became the father of Matthan, Matthan the father of Jacob, Jacob the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary. Of her was born Jesus who is called the Messiah.

Matthew 13:31-32 - “The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed that a person took and sowed in a field. It is the smallest of all the seeds, yet when full-grown it is the largest of plants. It becomes a large bush, and the ‘birds of the sky come and dwell in its branches.’"

This sense of Scripture tells what the passage actually, historically means; the real person, event, or situation described by the text

In this sense of Scripture, the people or events represent other people and events (think Narnia, where Aslan represents Jesus); helps us understand how some of the events of the Old Testament foreshadow Jesus and the Church.