Dogs

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• Matthew 7:6

  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.

• Proverbs 26:11

  As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly.

• Philippians 3:2

  Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision.

• Revelation 22:15

  For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.

• Matthew 15:27

  And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table.

• Luke 16:19–31

  There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day: And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores, And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores. …

• Job 30:1

  But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.

• Proverbs 12:10

  A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.

• Matthew 15:26

  But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs.

• 1 Kings 21:19

  And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the LORD, Hast thou killed, and also taken possession? And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the LORD, In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood, even thine.

• Psalms 22:16

  For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.

• 1 Kings 16:4

  Him that dieth of Baasha in the city shall the dogs eat; and him that dieth of his in the fields shall the fowls of the air eat.

• 2 Samuel 9:8

  And he bowed himself, and said, What is thy servant, that thou shouldest look upon such a dead dog as I am?

• 1 Kings 14:11

  Him that dieth of Jeroboam in the city shall the dogs eat; and him that dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat: for the LORD hath spoken it.

• Exodus 11:7

  But against any of the children of Israel shall not a dog move his tongue, against man or beast: that ye may know how that the LORD doth put a difference between the Egyptians and Israel.

• 1 Samuel 24:14

  After whom is the king of Israel come out? after whom dost thou pursue? after a dead dog, after a flea.

• Luke 16:21

  And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.

• Isaiah 56:11

  Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter.

• 1 Kings 22:38

  And one washed the chariot in the pool of Samaria; and the dogs licked up his blood; and they washed his armour; according unto the word of the LORD which he spake.

• Psalms 22:20

  Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog.

• Deuteronomy 23:18

  Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, into the house of the LORD thy God for any vow: for even both these are abomination unto the LORD thy God.

• 2 Samuel 3:8

  Then was Abner very wroth for the words of Ish-bosheth, and said, Am I a dog's head, which against Judah do shew kindness this day unto the house of Saul thy father, to his brethren, and to his friends, and have not delivered thee into the hand of David, that thou chargest me to day with a fault concerning this woman?

• Exodus 22:31

  And ye shall be holy men unto me: neither shall ye eat any flesh that is torn of beasts in the field; ye shall cast it to the dogs.

• Psalms 59:6

  They return at evening: they make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city.

• Proverbs 26:17

  He that passeth by, and meddleth with strife belonging not to him, is like one that taketh a dog by the ears.

• Isaiah 11:6–9

  The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den. …

• 2 Peter 2:22

  But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.

• Isaiah 56:10

  His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.

• Isaiah 56:9–12

  All ye beasts of the field, come to devour, yea, all ye beasts in the forest. His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber. Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter. …

• 2 Samuel 16:9

  Then said Abishai the son of Zeruiah unto the king, Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? let me go over, I pray thee, and take off his head.

• 1 Samuel 17:43

  And the Philistine said unto David, Am I a dog, that thou comest to me with staves? And the Philistine cursed David by his gods.

• 1 Kings 21:23

  And of Jezebel also spake the LORD, saying, The dogs shall eat Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel.

• Job 12:10

  In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.

• Isaiah 65:25

  The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent's meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the LORD.

• Psalms 68:23

  That thy foot may be dipped in the blood of thine enemies, and the tongue of thy dogs in the same.

• Ecclesiastes 3:18–21

  I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts. For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity. All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again. …

• Revelation 5:13

  And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever.

• Psalms 59:14

  And at evening let them return; and let them make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city.

• Isaiah 11:6

  The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.

• Isaiah 56:10–11

  His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber. Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter.