6Give 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.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
He that reproveth a scorner getteth to himself shame: and he that rebuketh a wicked man getteth himself a blot. …
Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.
And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, when ye depart out of that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet. …
As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly.
But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy, and spake against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-6)Our Saviour is here directing us how to conduct ourselves in reference to the faults of others; and his expressions seem intended as a reproof to the scribes and Pharisees, who were very rigid and severe, very magisterial and supercilious, in condemning all about them, as those commonly are, that are proud and conceited in justifying themselves. We have here, I. A caution against judging Matt. 7:1…
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