Matthew 7:6

New Living Translation

“Don’t waste what is holy on people who are unholy. Don’t throw your pearls to pigs! They will trample the pearls, then turn and attack you.

Cross References

Proverbs 11:22

A beautiful woman who lacks discretion is like a gold ring in a pig’s snout.

Proverbs 23:9

Don’t waste your breath on fools, for they will despise the wisest advice.

Proverbs 26:11

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

Proverbs 26:4

Don’t answer the foolish arguments of fools, or you will become as foolish as they are.

Matthew 15:26

Jesus responded, “It isn’t right to take food from the children and throw it to the dogs.”

Matthew 24:10

And many will turn away from me and betray and hate each other.

Matthew 7:5

Hypocrite! First get rid of the log in your own eye; then you will see well enough to deal with the speck in your friend’s eye.

2 Corinthians 11:26

I have traveled on many long journeys. I have faced danger from rivers and from robbers. I have faced danger from my own people, the Jews, as well as from the Gentiles. I have faced danger in the cities, in the deserts, and on the seas. And I have faced danger from men who claim to be believers but are not.

Philippians 3:2

Watch out for those dogs, those people who do evil, those mutilators who say you must be circumcised to be saved.

Hebrews 10:29

Just think how much worse the punishment will be for those who have trampled on the Son of God, and have treated the blood of the covenant, which made us holy, as if it were common and unholy, and have insulted and disdained the Holy Spirit who brings God’s mercy to us.

Hebrews 6:6

and who then turn away from God. It is impossible to bring such people back to repentance; by rejecting the Son of God, they themselves are nailing him to the cross once again and holding him up to public shame.

2 Peter 2:22

They prove the truth of this proverb: “A dog returns to its vomit.” And another says, “A washed pig returns to the mud.”

Revelation 22:15

Outside the city are the dogs—the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idol worshipers, and all who love to live a lie.