¹³ Hazael said, “What is your servant, who is a mere dog, that he should do this great thing?” Elisha answered, “The Lord has shown me that you are to be king over Aram.”^(A)

¹⁵ Then the Lord said to him, “Go, return on your way to the wilderness of Damascus; when you arrive, you shall anoint Hazael as king over Aram.^(A)

⁴³ The Philistine said to David, “Am I a dog, that you come to me with sticks?” And the Philistine cursed David by his gods.^(A)

⁸ He did obeisance and said, “What is your servant, that you should look upon a dead dog such as I?”^(A)

¹⁵ Outside are the dogs and sorcerers and sexually immoral^[a] and murderers and idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.^(A)

² Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of those who mutilate the flesh!^[a](A)

³³ Peter said to him, “Even if all fall away^[a] because of you, I will never fall away.”^{[b] 34} Jesus said to him, “Truly I tell you, this very night, before the cock crows, you will deny me three times.”^{(A) 35} Peter said to him, “Even though I must die with you, I will not deny you.” And so said all the disciples.^(B)

Profaning the Holy

⁶ “Do not give what is holy to dogs, and do not throw your pearls before swine, or they will trample them under foot and turn and maul you.^(A)

Social Evils Denounced