Bible Verses About Dogs
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for dogs, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 5,002 votes, led by Matthew 7:6. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Dogs
Matthew 7:6205 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.
Proverbs 26:11199 votes
As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly.
Philippians 3:2188 votes
Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision.
Revelation 22:15184 votes
For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
Matthew 15:27150 votes
And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters’ table.
Luke 16:19-31133 votes
There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day:
Job 30:1128 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.
Proverbs 12:10116 votes
A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.
1 Kings 21:19105 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.
Matthew 15:26105 votes
But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children’s bread, and to cast it to dogs.
2 Samuel 9:899 votes
And he bowed himself, and said, What is thy servant, that thou shouldest look upon such a dead dog as I am?
1 Kings 14:1196 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 16:495 votes
Him that dieth of Baasha in the city shall the dogs eat; and him that dieth of his in the fields shall the fowls of the air eat.
Psalms 22:1694 votes
For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.
Exodus 11:791 votes
But against any of the children of Israel shall not a dog move his tongue, against man or beast: that ye may know how that the Lord doth put a difference between the Egyptians and Israel.
1 Samuel 24:1486 votes
After whom is the king of Israel come out? after whom dost thou pursue? after a dead dog, after a flea.
1 Kings 22:3873 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.
Luke 16:2172 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.
Deuteronomy 23:1869 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.
Psalms 22:2068 votes
Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog.
Isaiah 56:1168 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.
2 Samuel 3:867 votes
Then was Abner very wroth for the words of Ish–bosheth, and said, Am I a dog’s head, which against Judah do shew kindness this day unto the house of Saul thy father, to his brethren, and to his friends, and have not delivered thee into the hand of David, that thou chargest me to day with a fault concerning this woman?
Exodus 22:3164 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.
Psalms 59:662 votes
They return at evening: they make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city.
Proverbs 26:1762 votes
He that passeth by, and meddleth with strife belonging not to him, is like one that taketh a dog by the ears.
What does the Bible say about dogs?
Readers most often cite Matthew 7:6 on the subject of dogs. Across 5,002 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Proverbs 26:11, Philippians 3:2, Revelation 22:15. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.