Matthew 7:6
“Don’t give that which is holy to the dogs, neither throw your pearls before the pigs, lest perhaps they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.
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In Context
7“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.
Cross References
Proverbs 11:22Like a gold ring in a pig’s snout, is a beautiful woman who lacks discretion.
Proverbs 26:11As a dog that returns to his vomit, so is a fool who repeats his folly.
Matthew 15:26But he answered, “It is not appropriate to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.”
Matthew 24:10Then many will stumble, and will deliver up one another, and will hate one another.
2 Corinthians 11:26I have been in travels often, perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from my countrymen, perils from the Gentiles, perils in the city, perils in the wilderness, perils in the sea, perils among false brothers;
2 Timothy 4:14Alexander the coppersmith did much evil to me. The Lord will repay him according to his deeds.
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 →