Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Mat 15:26 — But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast [it] to dogs.
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It is not   Mat 7:6; Mar 7:27,28; Act 22:21,22; Rom 9:4; Gal 2:15; Eph 2:12; Phl 3:2; Rev 22:15
dogs   "[kunarion ( kuna/rion )] ""to the little dogs,"" lap dogs, etc., the diminutive of [kuon ( ku/wn )] a dog. The Jews, while they boasted of being the children of God, gave the name of dogs to the heathen, for their idolatry, etc."
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It is not
Mat 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.
Mar 7:27 But Jesus said unto her, Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast [it] unto the dogs.
Mar 7:28 And she answered and said unto him, Yes, Lord: yet the dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs.
Act 22:21 And he said unto me, Depart: for I will send thee far hence unto the Gentiles.
Act 22:22 And they gave him audience unto this word, and [then] lifted up their voices, and said, Away with such a [fellow] from the earth: for it is not fit that he should live.
Rom 9:4 Who are Israelites; to whom [pertaineth] the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service [of God], and the promises;
Gal 2:15 We [who are] Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles,
Eph 2:12 That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:
Phl 3:2 Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision.
Rev 22:15 For without [are] dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.

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Scott, Thomas. "Matthew 15:26," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
<http://www.blueletterbible.org/tsk_b/Mat/15/26.html>.

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