Matthew 7:6
Do not give what is holy unto dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine,—lest once they trample, them, down with their feet, and, turning, tear, you.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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Proverbs 11:22As a ring of gold in the snout of a swine, is a woman of beauty who hath abandoned discretion.
Proverbs 26:11As, a dog, returneth onto his own vomit, a dullard, repeateth his folly.
Matthew 15:26But, he, answering, said, It is, not seemly, to take the loaf of, the children, and cast, to the little dogs.
Matthew 24:10And, then, will many be caused to stumble, and, one another, will deliver up, and will hate one another;
2 Corinthians 11:26In journeyings oft, in perils of rivers, in perils of robbers, in perils from my own race, in perils from Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the desert, in perils by the sea, in perils among false brethren,
2 Timothy 4:14Alexander the coppersmith, of much baseness towards me, hath given proof,—the Lord will render unto 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 →