Verse 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.

Referenced Verses

  • Prov 9:7-8 : 7 He who corrects a mocker invites insult. He who reproves a wicked man invites abuse. 8 Don't reprove a scoffer, lest he hate you. Reprove a wise man, and he will love you.
  • Prov 23:9 : 9 Don't speak in the ears of a fool, For he will despise the wisdom of your 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 Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, and said, "It was necessary that God's word should be spoken to you first. Since indeed you thrust it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we turn to the Gentiles. 47 For so has the Lord commanded us, saying, 'I have set you as a light for the Gentiles, That you should bring salvation to the uttermost parts of the earth.'"
  • 2 Tim 4:14-15 : 14 Alexander, the coppersmith, did much evil to me. The Lord will repay him according to his works, 15 of whom you also must beware; for he greatly opposed our words.
  • Prov 26:11 : 11 As a dog that returns to his vomit, So is a fool who repeats his folly.
  • Matt 10:14-15 : 14 Whoever doesn't receive you, nor hear your words, as you go out of that house or that city, shake off the dust from your feet. 15 Most assuredly I tell you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city.
  • Matt 15:26 : 26 But he answered, "It is not appropriate to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs."
  • Heb 10:29 : 29 How much worse punishment, do you think, will he be judged worthy of, who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant with which he was sanctified an unholy thing, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?
  • Phil 3:2 : 2 Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of the false circumcision.
  • Prov 11:22 : 22 Like a gold ring in a pig's snout, Is a beautiful woman who lacks discretion.
  • Matt 24:10 : 10 Then many will stumble, and will deliver up one another, and will hate one another.