Bible Verses About Buying and Selling Dogs
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for buying and selling dogs, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 331 votes, led by Deuteronomy 23:18. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Buying and Selling Dogs
Deuteronomy 23:18123 votes
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.
Proverbs 3:5-627 votes
Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
Matthew 7:616 votes
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.
Psalms 85:1-1314 votes
Lord, thou hast been favourable unto thy land: thou hast brought back the captivity of Jacob.
Revelation 22:1513 votes
For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
Job 30:112 votes
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.
Matthew 15:2712 votes
And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters’ table.
Philippians 3:212 votes
Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision.
Revelation 1:112 votes
The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:
Exodus 22:3110 votes
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.
1 Kings 14:1110 votes
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.
1 Kings 21:1910 votes
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.
1 Kings 22:3810 votes
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 22:1610 votes
For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.
Isaiah 56:1010 votes
His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.
Isaiah 56:1110 votes
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.
Matthew 15:2610 votes
But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children’s bread, and to cast it to dogs.
Luke 16:2110 votes
And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man’s table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.
What does the Bible say about buying and selling dogs?
Readers most often cite Deuteronomy 23:18 on the subject of buying and selling dogs. Across 331 votes, 18 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Proverbs 3:5-6, Matthew 7:6, Psalms 85:1-13. This page lists all 18 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.