6 “Do not give what is holy to dogs,+ neither throw YOUR pearls before swine, that they may never trample+ them under their feet and turn around and rip YOU open.

5 These twelve Jesus sent forth, giving them these orders:+ “Do not go off into the road of the nations, and do not enter into a Sa·marʹi·tan city;+

26 In answer he said: “It is not right to take the bread of the children and throw it to little dogs.”

4 who, as such, are Israelites,+ to whom belong the adoption as sons+ and the glory+ and the covenants+ and the giving of the Law+ and the sacred service*+ and the promises;+

12 that YOU were at that particular time without Christ,+ alienated+ from the state of Israel and strangers to the covenants of the promise,+ and YOU had no hope+ and were without God in the world.*+