Matthew 15:26
But he answered, "It is not appropriate to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs."
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- Phil 3:2 : 2 Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of the false circumcision.
- Rev 22:15 : 15 Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
- Matt 7:6 : 6 "Don't give that which is holy to the dogs, neither throw your pearls before the pigs, lest perhaps they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.
- Mark 7:27-28 : 27 But Jesus said to her, "Let the children be filled first, for it is not appropriate to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs." 28 But she answered him, "Yes, Lord. Yet even the dogs under the table eat the children's crumbs."
- Acts 22:21-22 : 21 "He said to me, 'Depart, for I will send you out far from here to the Gentiles.'" 22 They listened to him until he said that; then they lifted up their voice, and said, "Rid the earth of this fellow, for he isn't fit to live!"
- Rom 9:4 : 4 who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service, and the promises;
- Gal 2:15 : 15 "We, being Jews by nature, and not Gentile sinners,
- Eph 2:12 : 12 that you were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
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25For a woman, whose little daughter had an unclean spirit, having heard of him, came and fell down at his feet.
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28But she answered him, "Yes, Lord. Yet even the dogs under the table eat the children's crumbs."
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27But she said, "Yes, Lord, but even the dogs eat the crumbs which fall from their masters' table."
28Then Jesus answered her, "Woman, great is your faith! Be it done to you even as you desire." And her daughter was healed from that hour.
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