Matthew 15:26 - New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

²⁶ He answered, “It is not fair to take the children's food and throw it to the dogs.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁶ But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁶ And He answered, It is not right (proper, becoming, or fair) to take the children's bread and throw it to the little dogs.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁶ And he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children’s bread and cast it to the dogs.

Common English Bible

²⁶ He replied, “It is not good to take the children’s bread and toss it to dogs.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁶ And responding, he said, "It is not good to take the bread of the children and cast it to the dogs."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁶ Who answering, said: It is not good to take the bread of the children, and to cast it to the dogs.

Matthew 15:26 Cross References

Matthew 15:25

But she came and knelt before him, saying, “Lord, help me.”

Matthew 15:27

She said, “Yes, Lord, yet even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their masters' table.”

Matthew 7:6

“Do not give what is holy to dogs; and do not throw your pearls before swine, or they will trample them under foot and turn and maul you.

Romans 9:4

They are Israelites, and to them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises;

Galatians 2:15

We ourselves are Jews by birth and not Gentile sinners;

Ephesians 2:12

remember that you were at that time without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

Philippians 3:2

Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of those who mutilate the flesh!

Revelation 22:15

Outside are the dogs and sorcerers and fornicators and murderers and idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.