Matthew 7:6
Do not give what is holy to the dogs, nor cast your pearls before the swine, lest they trample them by their feet, and having turn back may lacerate you.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
7Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and ye will find. Knock, and it will be opened to you.
Cross References
Proverbs 11:22A ring of gold in a swine's snout, [is] a fair woman who is without discretion.
Proverbs 26:11As a dog who returns to his vomit, [is] a fool who repeats his folly.
Matthew 15:26And having answered, he said, It is not right to take the children's bread and cast it to the house dogs.
Matthew 24:10And then many will be caused to stumble, and they will betray each other and will hate each other.
2 Corinthians 11:26in frequent journeys, in perils of flowing waters, in perils of bandits, in perils from my race, in perils from Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils at sea, in perils among FALSE brothers,
2 Timothy 4:14Alexander the coppersmith did many evil things to me. May the Lord repay him according to his works,
Matthew Henry on Matthew 7:2-7
The Sermon on the Mount. 1 Judge not, that ye be not judged. 2 For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. 3 And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? 4 Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? 5 Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly… Read the whole commentary →