Mark 7:27 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

And he said unto her, Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the children's bread and cast it to the dogs.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

But Jesus said unto her, Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it unto the dogs.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

And He said to her, First let the children be fed, for it is not becoming or proper or right to take the children's bread and throw it to the [little house] dogs.

American Standard Version (1901)

And he said unto her, Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the children’s bread and cast it to the dogs.

Common English Bible

He responded, “The children have to be fed first. It isn’t right to take the children’s bread and toss it to the dogs.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

And he said to her: "First allow the sons to have their fill. For it is not good to take away the bread of the sons and throw it to the dogs."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Who said to her: Suffer first the children to be filled: for it is not good to take the bread of the children, and cast it to the dogs.

Mark 7:27 Cross References

Matthew 10:5

These twelve Jesus sent forth, and charged them, saying, Go not into any way of the Gentiles, and enter not into any city of the Samaritans:

Matthew 7:6

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.

Mark 7:26

Now the woman was a Greek, a Syrophoenician by race. And she besought him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter.

Mark 7:28

But she answered and saith unto him, Yea, Lord: even the dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs.

Acts 22:21

And he said unto me, Depart: for I will send thee forth far hence unto the Gentiles.

Romans 15:8

For I say that Christ hath been made a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, that he might confirm the promises given unto the fathers,

Ephesians 2:12

that ye 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.