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Matthew 7:6

“Do not give what is holy to the dogs; nor cast your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces. 1 Ask, Seek, Knock

English Majority Text (NT)

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

5Hypocrite! First remove the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck out of your brother's eye.

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

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Cross References

Matthew 15:26But He answered and said, “It is not good to take the children's bread and to throw it to the little dogs.”

Matthew 24:10And then many will fall away, and they will betray one another, and they will hate one another.

2 Corinthians 11:26In journeys often, in dangers of rivers, in dangers of robbers, in dangers from my own race, in dangers from the Gentiles, in dangers in the city, in dangers in the wilderness, in dangers in the sea, in dangers among false brothers;

2 Timothy 4:14Alexander the coppersmith did me much harm. May the Lord 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 →

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