Matthew 7:6

Holman Christian Standard Bible

Don’t give what is holy to dogs or toss your pearls before pigs, or they will trample them with their feet, turn, and tear you to pieces.

Cross References

Proverbs 11:22

A beautiful woman who rejects good sense is like a gold ring in a pig’s snout.

Proverbs 23:9

Don’t speak to a fool, for he will despise the insight of your words.

Proverbs 26:11

As a dog returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his foolishness.

Proverbs 26:4

Don’t answer a fool according to his foolishness or you’ll be like him yourself.

Matthew 15:26

He answered, “It isn’t right to take the children’s bread and throw it to their dogs.”

Matthew 24:10

Then many will take offense, betray one another and hate one another.

Matthew 7:5

Hypocrite! First take the log out of your eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye.

2 Corinthians 11:26

On frequent journeys, I faced dangers from rivers, dangers from robbers, dangers from my own people, dangers from the Gentiles, dangers in the city, dangers in the open country, dangers on the sea, and dangers among false brothers;

Philippians 3:2

Watch out for “dogs,” watch out for evil workers, watch out for those who mutilate the flesh.

Hebrews 10:29

How much worse punishment do you think one will deserve who has trampled on the Son of God, regarded as profane the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and insulted the Spirit of grace?

Hebrews 6:6

and who have fallen away, because, to their own harm, they are recrucifying the Son of God and holding Him up to contempt.

2 Peter 2:22

It has happened to them according to the true proverb: A dog returns to its own vomit, and, “a sow, after washing itself, wallows in the mud.”

Revelation 22:15

Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices lying.