Bible verses about "swine" | Worrell

¹⁷ "Think not that I came to destroy the law, or the prophets; I came not to destroy, but to fulfill. ¹⁸ For verily I say to you, till the heaven and the earth pass away, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass away from the law, till all things be accomplished. ¹⁹ Whosoever, therefore, shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, shall be called least in the Kingdom of Heaven; but whosoever shall do and teach them, shall be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven.

⁹ Now, on the morrow, as they were journeying, and coming near to the city, Peter went up on the housetop to pray, about the sixth hour. ¹⁰ And he became very hungry, and wished to eat; and, while they were making ready, there came upon him a trance; ¹¹ and he beholds the heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending, as a great sheet, let down by four corners upon the earth; ¹² in which were all the four-footed beasts, and creeping things of the earth, and birds of the heaven. ¹³ And there came a voice to him, "Arising, Peter, kill and eat." ¹⁴ But Peter said, "By no means, Lord! because never at any time did I eat anything common or unclean." ¹⁵ And a voice came to him again, a second time, "What God cleansed, count not common."

¹⁴ having blotted out the hand-writing in decrees against us, which was contrary to us, and He has taken it out of the midst, nailing it to the cross; ¹⁵ having despoiled the principalities and the powers, He made an example of them, celebrating a triumph over them in it. ¹⁶ Let no one, therefore, judge you in food, or in drink, or in respect of a feast, or a new moon, or sabbaths,

¹¹ Now there was there by the mountain a great herd of swine feeding ¹² And they besought Him, saying, Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them." ¹³ And He permitted them. And, coming out, the unclean spirits entered into the swine; and the herd rushed down the steep into the sea, about two thousand, and were drowned in the sea. ¹⁴ And those feeding the swine fled, and reported it in the city and in the country. And they came to see what it was that had come to pass.

¹⁶ And he was longing to be filled with the pods which the swine were eating; and no one was giving to him.

³³ And the demons, going out from the man, entered into the swine, and the herd rushed down the steep into the lake, and were drowned.

²⁸ And, when He came to the other side, into the country of the Gadarenes, there met Him two demoniacs, coming out of the tombs, exceedingly fierce, so that no one could pass along that way; ²⁹ and, behold, they cried out, saying, "What is there to us and to Thee, O Son of God? Didst Thou come here to torment us before the time?" ³⁰ Now there was afar off from them a herd of many swine feeding. ³¹ And the demons were entreating Him, saying, "If Thou cast us out, send us away into the herd of swine." ³² And He said to them, "Go." And, having come out, they went away into the swine; and, behold, the whole herd rushed down the steep into the sea, and died in the waters!

⁶ "Give not that which is holy to the dogs; neither cast your pearls before the swine, lest haply they trample them down with their feet; and, turning, rend you.