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Matthew 7:6

Give not the holy unto dogs, and throw not your precious stones before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

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! draw forth first the rafter from thine own eye, and then thou wilt see to draw forth the rod from thy brother's eye.

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

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Cross References

Matthew 15:26Jeshu said to her, It is not proper to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs.

Matthew 24:10Then shall many be offended, and shall hate one another, and betray one another.

2 Corinthians 11:26In journeys many, in danger of rivers, in danger of robbers, in danger from my own race, in danger from the Gentiles; I have been in danger in cities, I have been in danger in the waste, in danger by sea, in danger from false brethren;

2 Timothy 4:14Alexander the brass-worker many evils hath showed me: our Lord awardeth to 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 →

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