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Casting Pearls Before Swine
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`Ye may not give that which is <FI>holy<Fi> to the dogs, nor cast your pearls before the swine, that they may not trample them among their feet, and having turned--may rend you.
`Judge not, that ye may not be judged, — read the full passage →
he who is unrighteous--let him be unrighteous still, and he who is filthy--let him be filthy still, and he who is righteous--let him be declared righteous still, and he who is sanctified--let him be sanctified still:
`Judge not, that ye may not be judged, — read the full passage →
`Again, the reign of the heavens is like to a man, a merchant, seeking goodly pearls, — read the full passage →
A ring of gold in the nose of a sow--A fair woman and stubborn of behaviour.
and without <FI>are<Fi> the dogs, and the sorcerers, and the whoremongers, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and every one who is loving and is doing a lie.
`Ye did not choose out me, but I chose out you, and did appoint you, that ye might go away, and might bear fruit, and your fruit might remain, that whatever ye may ask of the Father in my name, He may give you.
and he who, not having known, and having done things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few; and to every one to whom much was given, much shall be required from him; and to whom they did commit much, more abundantly they will ask of him.
`Again, the reign of the heavens is like to a man, a merchant, seeking goodly pearls,
And when he came down from the mount, great multitudes did follow him, — read the full passage →
`Take heed your kindness not to do before men, to be seen by them, and if not--reward ye have not from your Father who <FI>is<Fi> in the heavens; — read the full passage →
The instructor of a scorner Is receiving for it--shame, And a reprover of the wicked--his blemish. — read the full passage →
And the twelve gates <FI>are<Fi> twelve pearls, each several one of the gates was of one pearl; and the broad-place of the city <FI>is<Fi> pure gold--as transparent glass.
look to the dogs, look to the evil-workers, look to the concision;
and he answering said, `It is not good to take the children's bread, and to cast to the little dogs.'
`Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you;
and the Lord God sanctify in your hearts. And <FI>be<Fi> ready always for defence to every one who is asking of you an account concerning the hope that <FI>is<Fi> in you, with meekness and fear;
for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during. — read the full passage →
As a dog hath returned to its vomit, A fool is repeating his folly.
A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John,
and happened to them hath that of the true similitude; `A dog did turn back upon his own vomit,' and, `A sow having bathed herself--to rolling in mire.'
in like manner also the women, in becoming apparel, with modesty and sobriety to adorn themselves, not in braided hair, or gold, or pearls, or garments of great price,
so then the faith <FI>is<Fi> by a report, and the report through a saying of God,
Again, therefore, Jesus spake to them, saying, `I am the light of the world; he who is following me shall not walk in the darkness, but he shall have the light of the life.'
Hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine own eye, and then thou shalt see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
For, lo, I am creating new heavens, and a new earth, And the former things are not remembered, Nor do they ascend on the heart.
Unless Jehovah of Hosts had left to us a remnant, Shortly--as Sodom we had been, To Gomorrah we had been like!
In the ears of a fool speak not, For he treadeth on the wisdom of thy words.
And to the dust of death thou appointest me, For surrounded me have dogs, A company of evil doers have compassed me, Piercing my hands and my feet.
and if a fish he may ask--a serpent will he present to him?
Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth, For Jehovah hath spoken: Sons I have nourished and brought up, And they--they transgressed against Me.
These six hath Jehovah hated, Yea, seven <FI>are<Fi> abominations to His soul. — read the full passage →
and the sow, though it is dividing the hoof, and cleaving the cleft of the hoof, yet the cud it bringeth not up--unclean it <FI>is<Fi> to you.
`Not every one who is saying to me Lord, lord, shall come into the reign of the heavens; but he who is doing the will of my Father who is in the heavens. — read the full passage →
how strait <FI>is<Fi> the gate, and compressed the way that is leading to the life, and few are those finding it!
The Visions of Isaiah son of Amoz, that he hath seen concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, kings of Judah. — read the full passage →
For Thou dost not leave my soul to Sheol, Nor givest thy saintly one to see corruption.
`For I testify to every one hearing the words of the prophecy of this scroll, if any one may add unto these, God shall add to him the plagues that have been written in this scroll, — read the full passage →
and I heard a great voice out of the heaven, saying, `Lo, the tabernacle of God <FI>is<Fi> with men, and He will tabernacle with them, and they shall be His peoples, and God Himself shall be with them--their God,
who did testify the word of God, and the testimony of Jesus Christ, as many things also as he did see.
and whatever we may ask, we receive from Him, because His commands we keep, and the things pleasing before Him we do,
and many shall follow out their destructive ways, because of whom the way of the truth shall be evil spoken of,
Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Timotheus the brother, — read the full passage →
and the Jews having seen the multitudes, were filled with zeal, and did contradict the things spoken by Paul--contradicting and speaking evil.
if ye may remain in me, and my sayings in you may remain, whatever ye may wish ye shall ask, and it shall be done to you.
Jesus answered and said to him, `Verily, verily, I say to thee, If any one may not be born from above, he is not able to see the reign of God;'
And there was a man of the Pharisees, Nicodemus his name, a ruler of the Jews, — read the full passage →
And he spake also a simile to them, that it behoveth <FI>us<Fi> always to pray, and not to faint, — read the full passage →
Because of this I say to you, all whatever--praying--ye do ask, believe that ye receive, and it shall be to you.
if, therefore, ye being evil, have known good gifts to give to your children, how much more shall your Father who <FI>is<Fi> in the heavens give good things to those asking him?
`Ye may not give that which is <FI>holy<Fi> to the dogs, nor cast your pearls before the swine, that they may not trample them among their feet, and having turned--may rend you. — read the full passage →
for in what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged, and in what measure ye measure, it shall be measured to you.
Come, I pray you, and we reason, saith Jehovah, If your sins are as scarlet, as snow they shall be white, If they are red as crimson, as wool they shall be!
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