Matthew 7:6

New English Translation

Do not give what is holy to dogs or throw your pearls before pigs; otherwise they will trample them under their feet and turn around and tear you to pieces.

Cross References

Proverbs 11:22

Like a gold ring in a pig’s snout is a beautiful woman who rejects discretion.

Proverbs 23:9

Do not speak in the ears of a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words.

Proverbs 26:11

Like a dog that returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his folly.

Proverbs 26:4

Do not answer a fool according to his folly, lest you yourself also be like him.

Matthew 15:26

“It is not right to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs,” he said.

Matthew 24:10

Then many will be led into sin, and they will betray one another and hate one another.

Matthew 7:5

You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.

2 Corinthians 11:26

I have been on journeys many times, in dangers from rivers, in dangers from robbers, in dangers from my own countrymen, in dangers from Gentiles, in dangers in the city, in dangers in the wilderness, in dangers at sea, in dangers from false brothers,

Philippians 3:2

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

Hebrews 10:29

How much greater punishment do you think that person deserves who has contempt for the Son of God, and profanes the blood of the covenant that made him holy, and insults the Spirit of grace?

Hebrews 6:6

and then have committed apostasy, to renew them again to repentance, since they are crucifying the Son of God for themselves all over again and holding him up to contempt.

2 Peter 2:22

They are illustrations of this true proverb: “A dog returns to its own vomit,” and “A sow, after washing herself, wallows in the mire.”

Revelation 22:15

Outside are the dogs and the sorcerers and the sexually immoral, and the murderers, and the idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood!