Matthew 7:6

Give not that which is holy to dogs; neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest perhaps they trample them under their feet, and turning upon you, they tear you.

Douay-Rheims 1899

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

5Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam in thy own eye, and then shalt thou see to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.

7Ask, and it shall be given you: seek, and you shall find: knock, and it shall be opened to you.

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Cross References

Proverbs 11:22A golden ring in a swine's snout, a woman fair and foolish.

Proverbs 26:11As a dog that returneth to his vomit, so is the fool that repeateth his folly.

Matthew 15:26Who answering, said: It is not good to take the bread of the children, and to cast it to the dogs.

Matthew 24:10And then shall many be scandalized: and shall betray one another: and shall hate one another.

2 Corinthians 11:26In journeying often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils from my own nation, in perils from the Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils from false brethren.

2 Timothy 4:14Alexander the coppersmith hath done me much evil: the Lord will reward 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 →

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