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Matthew 7:6

Do not give that which is holy to the dogs, or put your jewels before pigs, for fear that they will be crushed under foot by the pigs whose attack will then be made against you.

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In The King James Version

Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.

In Context

5You false one, first take out the bit of wood from your eye, then will you see clearly to take out the grain of dust from your brother's eye.

7Make a request, and it will be answered; what you are searching for you will get; give the sign, and the door will be open to you:

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Cross References

Proverbs 11:22Like a ring of gold in the nose of a pig, is a beautiful woman who has no sense.

Proverbs 26:11Like a dog going back to the food which he has not been able to keep down, is the foolish man doing his foolish acts over again.

Matthew 15:26And he made answer and said, It is not right to take the children's bread and give it to the dogs.

Matthew 24:10And numbers of people will be turned from the right way, and will give one another up and have hate for one another.

2 Corinthians 11:26In frequent travels, in dangers on rivers, in dangers from outlaws, in dangers from my countrymen, in dangers from the Gentiles, in dangers in the town, in dangers in the waste land, in dangers at sea, in dangers among false brothers;

2 Timothy 4:14Alexander the copper-worker did me much wrong: the Lord will give him the reward of 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 →

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