But He answered and said, "It is not good to take the children's bread and to throw it to the little dogs."
Matthew 7:6 - English Majority Text Version Do not give what is holy to the dogs; nor cast your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you in pieces. Higit pang mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Do not give that which is holy (the sacred thing) to the dogs, and do not throw your pearls before hogs, lest they trample upon them with their feet and turn and tear you in pieces. American Standard Version (1901) 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. Common English Bible Don’t give holy things to dogs, and don’t throw your pearls in front of pigs. They will stomp on the pearls, then turn around and attack you. Catholic Public Domain Version Do not give what is holy to dogs, and do not cast your pearls before swine, lest perhaps they may trample them under their feet, and then, turning, they may tear you apart. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Give not that which is holy to dogs; neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest perhaps they trample them under their feet, and turning upon you, they tear you. |
But He answered and said, "It is not good to take the children's bread and to throw it to the little dogs."
And then many will fall away, and they will betray one another, and they will hate one another.
Hypocrite! First remove the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck out of your brother's eye.
In journeys often, in dangers of rivers, in dangers of robbers, in dangers from my own race, in dangers from the Gentiles, in dangers in the city, in dangers in the wilderness, in dangers in the sea, in dangers among false brothers;
Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of the false circumcision!
By how much worse punishment, do you think, will he be deemed worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, and has regarded as common the blood of the covenant, by which he was sanctified, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?
and having fallen away, to renew them again to repentance, since they crucify again for themselves the Son of God, and hold Him up to contempt.
But it has happened to them according to the saying of the true proverb: "A dog returns to his own vomit," and, "A sow, having washed, to her wallowing in the mire."
But outside are dogs and drug users and fornicators and murderers and idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices a lie.