Matthew 7:6
Give not that which is holy to the dogs, nor cast your pearls before the swine, lest they trample them with their feet, and turning round rend you.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
7Ask, and it shall be given to you. Seek, and ye shall find. Knock, and it shall be opened to you.
Cross References
Proverbs 11:22A fair woman who is without discretion, is [as] a gold ring in a swine's snout.
Proverbs 26:11As a dog turneth back to its vomit, [so] a fool repeateth his folly.
Matthew 15:26But he answering said, It is not well to take the bread of the children and cast it to the dogs.
Matthew 24:10And then will many be offended, and will deliver one another up, and hate one another;
2 Corinthians 11:26in journeyings often, in perils of rivers, in perils of robbers, in perils from [my own] race, in perils from [the] nations, in perils in [the] city, in perils in [the] desert, in perils on [the] sea, in perils among false brethren;
2 Timothy 4:14Alexander the smith did many evil things against me. The Lord will render to 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 →