Matthew 7:6
Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast your pearls before the swine, lest haply they trample them under their feet, and turn and rend you.
American Standard Version
In The King James Version
In Context
7Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:
Cross References
Proverbs 11:22[As] a ring of gold in a swine`s snout, [So is] a fair woman that is without discretion.
Proverbs 26:11As a dog that returneth to his vomit, [So is] a fool that repeateth his folly.
Matthew 15:26And he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children`s bread and cast it to the dogs.
Matthew 24:10And then shall many stumble, and shall deliver up one another, and shall hate one another.
2 Corinthians 11:26[in] journeyings often, [in] perils of rivers, [in] perils of robbers, [in] perils from [my] countrymen, [in] perils from the Gentiles, [in] perils in the city, [in] perils in the wilderness, [in] perils in the sea, [in] perils among false brethren;
2 Timothy 4:14Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil: 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 →