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Matthew 7:6

Wisdom

4 How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ while there is still a beam in your own eye?

5 You hypocrite! First take the beam out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.

Do not give dogs what is holy; do not throw your pearls before swine. If you do, they may trample them under their feet, and then turn and tear you to pieces.

7 Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you.

8 For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.

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BSB
Do not give dogs what is holy; do not throw your pearls before swine. If you do, they may trample them under their feet, and then turn and tear you to pieces.
KJV
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.
WEB
“Don’t give that which is holy to the dogs, neither throw your pearls before the pigs, lest perhaps they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.
ASV
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.
DARBY
Give not that which is holy to the dogs, nor cast your pearls before the swine, lest they trample them with their feet, and turning round rend you.
BLB
Do not give what [is] holy to the dogs, nor cast your⁺ pearls before the pigs, lest they will trample them among their feet and, having turned, tear you⁺ to pieces.
ÅB
«Gi ikke det hellige til hundene, og kast ikke perlene deres for svinene. De vil bare tråkke dem ned med føttene sine, og så komme tilbake og rive dere i stykker.
OTB
“Gi ikke det hellige til hundene, og kast ikke perlene deres for svin, for at de ikke skal trampe dem under føttene, vende seg om og rive dere i stykker.
B1930
Gi ikke hundene det hellige, og kast ikke eders perler for svinene, forat de ikke skal trå dem ned med sine føtter og vende sig om og sønderrive eder.

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