Matthew 7:6
Do not give what is holy to dogs, and do not cast your pearls before swine, lest perhaps they may trample them under their feet, and then, turning, they may tear you apart.
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In Context
7Ask, and it shall be given to you. Seek, and you shall find. Knock, and it shall be opened to you.
Cross References
Proverbs 11:22A beautiful and senseless woman is like a gold ring in the snout of a swine.
Proverbs 26:11Like a dog that returns to his vomit, so also is the imprudent who repeats his foolishness.
Matthew 15:26And responding, he said, “It is not good to take the bread of the children and cast it to the dogs.”
Matthew 24:10And then many will be led into sin, and will betray one another, and will have hatred for one another.
2 Corinthians 11:26I have made frequent journeys, through dangerous waters, in danger of robbers, in danger from my own nation, in danger from the Gentiles, in danger in the city, in danger in the wilderness, in danger in the sea, in danger from false brothers,
2 Timothy 4:14Alexander the coppersmith has shown me much evil; the Lord will 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 →