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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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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

5You're being hypocritical! First get rid of the plank that's in your own eye. Then you'll be able to see clearly to take out the speck from your brother's eye.

7Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you.

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Cross References

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 →

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