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Matthew 7:6

Do not ye give holy thing (s) to hounds, neither cast ye your margarites before swine, (or throw your pearls to the hogs, or to the pigs), lest peradventure they defoul them with their feet, and the hounds be turned, and tear you all to pieces.

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

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, first do out the beam of thine eye/do thou out first the beam of thine own eye, and then thou shalt see to do out the mote of the eye of thy brother.

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

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Cross References

Proverbs 11:22A golden ring in the nostrils of a sow, ( is like) a woman fair and fool. (A gold ring in the nostrils of a pig, is like a woman who is comely, but foolish.)

Proverbs 26:11As a dog that turneth again to his spewing [or As an hound that turneth again to his vomit]; so is an unprudent man, that rehearseth his folly. (Like a dog that returneth to his vomit, is an imprudent person, who repeateth his own foolishness.)

Matthew 15:26Which answered, and said, It is not good to take the bread of children, and cast [it] to (the) hounds.

Matthew 24:10And then many shall be caused to stumble, and betray each other, and they shall hate each other.

2 Corinthians 11:26in ways oft, in perils of floods (or in danger from rivers), in perils of thieves, in perils of kin, in perils of heathen men (or in danger from the Gentiles), in perils in [the] city, in perils in (the) desert, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren,

2 Timothy 4:14Alexander, the treasurer, showed to me much evil; the Lord shall yield to him after 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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