Matthew 7:6

Give not that which is holy to dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend 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

5Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thy own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.

7Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and the door shall be opened to you:

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Cross References

Proverbs 11:22As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman who is without discretion.

Proverbs 26:11As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly.

Matthew 15:26But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs.

Matthew 24:10And then will many be offended, and will betray one another, and will hate one another.

2 Corinthians 11:26In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by my own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren;

2 Timothy 4:14Alexander the copper-smith did me much evil: the Lord reward 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 →

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