Matthew 7:6

American Standard Version (1901)

Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast your pearls before the swine, lest haply they trample them under their feet, and turn and rend you.

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  • Prov 9:7-8 : 7 He that correcteth a scoffer getteth to himself reviling; And he that reproveth a wicked man [getteth] himself a blot. 8 Reprove not a scoffer, lest he hate thee: Reprove a wise man, and he will love thee.
  • Prov 23:9 : 9 Speak not in the hearing of a fool; For he will despise the wisdom of thy words.
  • Acts 13:45-47 : 45 But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with jealousy, and contradicted the things which were spoken by Paul, and blasphemed. 46 And Paul and Barnabas spake out boldly, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first be spoken to you. Seeing ye thrust it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles. 47 For so hath the Lord commanded us, [saying], I have set thee for a light of the Gentiles, That thou shouldest be for salvation unto the uttermost part of the earth.
  • 2 Tim 4:14-15 : 14 Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil: the Lord will render to him according to his works: 15 of whom do thou also beware; for he greatly withstood our words.
  • Prov 26:11 : 11 As a dog that returneth to his vomit, [So is] a fool that repeateth his folly.
  • Matt 10:14-15 : 14 And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, as ye go forth out of that house or that city, shake off the dust of your feet. 15 Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment, than for that city.
  • Matt 15:26 : 26 And he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children's bread and cast it to the dogs.
  • Heb 10:29 : 29 of how much sorer punishment, think ye, shall he be judged worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant wherewith he was sanctified an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?
  • Phil 3:2 : 2 Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of the concision:
  • Prov 11:22 : 22 [ As] a ring of gold in a swine's snout, [So is] a fair woman that is without discretion.
  • Matt 24:10 : 10 And then shall many stumble, and shall deliver up one another, and shall hate one another.

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