Matius 7:6

7:6 Do not give what is holy to dogs or throw your pearls before pigs; otherwise they will trample them under their feet and turn around and tear you to pieces. ¹ 

Matius 9:13

9:13 Go and learn what this saying means: ‘I want mercy and not sacrifice.’ ²  For I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

Matius 12:7

12:7 If ³  you had known what this means: ‘I want mercy and not sacrifice,’ ⁴  you would not have condemned the innocent.

[7:6]  ¹ tn Or “otherwise the latter will trample them under their feet and the former will turn around and tear you to pieces.” This verse is sometimes understood as a chiasm of the pattern a-b-b-a, in which the first and last clauses belong together (“dogs…turn around and tear you to pieces”) and the second and third clauses belong together (“pigs…trample them under their feet”).

[9:13]  ² sn A quotation from Hos 6:6 (see also Matt 12:7).

[12:7]  ³ tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

[12:7]  ⁴ sn A quotation from Hos 6:6 (see also Matt 9:13).