Matthew 7:6
Don't give dogs what's holy. Don't throw your pearls to pigs. That way the pigs won't trample them underfoot, and the dogs won't turn and attack you.
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Proverbs 11:22A beautiful woman who lacks good judgment is like a gold ring in a pig's snout.
Proverbs 26:11Stupid people repeat their stupidity like a dog returning to its vomit.
Matthew 15:26“It's not right to take the children's food and throw it to the dogs,” Jesus told her.
Matthew 24:10At that time many believers will give up believing. They will betray one another and hate one another.
2 Corinthians 11:26During my many journeys I have faced the dangers of crossing rivers, robber gangs, attacks from my own countrymen, as well as from foreigners. I have faced danger in cities, in the deserts, and on the sea. I have faced the danger of people who pretend to be Christians.
2 Timothy 4:14Alexander the coppersmith caused me a lot of trouble—may God judge him for what he did.
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 →