SWINE

Passages on this topic · 22

• Leviticus 11:7

  The pig, because he has a split hoof, and is cloven-footed, but doesn’t chew the cud, he is unclean to you.

• Deuteronomy 14:8

  The pig, because it has a split hoof but doesn’t chew the cud, is unclean to you. You shall not eat their meat, and you shall not touch their carcasses.

• Psalms 80:13

  The boar out of the wood ravages it. The wild animals of the field feed on it.

• Proverbs 11:22

  Like a gold ring in a pig’s snout, is a beautiful woman who lacks discretion.

• Isaiah 65:4

  who sit among the graves, and spend nights in secret places; who eat pig’s meat, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels;

• Isaiah 66:3

  He who kills an ox is as he who kills a man; he who sacrifices a lamb, as he who breaks a dog’s neck; he who offers an offering, as he who offers pig’s blood; he who burns frankincense, as he who blesses an idol. Yes, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delights in their abominations:

• Isaiah 66:17

  “Those who sanctify themselves and purify themselves to go to the gardens, behind one in the middle, eating pig’s meat, abominable things, and the mouse, they shall come to an end together,” says Yahweh.

• Matthew 7:6

  “Don’t give that which is holy to the dogs, neither throw your pearls before the pigs, lest perhaps they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.

• Matthew 8:28

  When he came to the other side, into the country of the Gergesenes, two people possessed by demons met him there, coming out of the tombs, exceedingly fierce, so that nobody could pass that way.

• Matthew 8:29

  Behold, they cried out, saying, “What do we have to do with you, Jesus, Son of God? Have you come here to torment us before the time?”

• Matthew 8:30

  Now there was a herd of many pigs feeding far away from them.

• Matthew 8:31

  The demons begged him, saying, “If you cast us out, permit us to go away into the herd of pigs.”

• Matthew 8:32

  He said to them, “Go!” They came out, and went into the herd of pigs: and behold, the whole herd of pigs rushed down the cliff into the sea, and died in the water.

• Mark 5:11

  Now on the mountainside there was a great herd of pigs feeding.

• Mark 5:12

  All the demons begged him, saying, “Send us into the pigs, that we may enter into them.”

• Mark 5:13

  At once Jesus gave them permission. The unclean spirits came out and entered into the pigs. The herd of about two thousand rushed down the steep bank into the sea, and they were drowned in the sea.

• Mark 5:14

  Those who fed them fled, and told it in the city and in the country. The people came to see what it was that had happened.

• Luke 8:32

  Now there was there a herd of many pigs feeding on the mountain, and they begged him that he would allow them to enter into those. He allowed them.

• Luke 8:33

  The demons came out of the man, and entered into the pigs, and the herd rushed down the steep bank into the lake, and were drowned.

• Luke 15:15

  He went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed pigs.

• Luke 15:16

  He wanted to fill his belly with the husks that the pigs ate, but no one gave him any.

• 2 Peter 2:22

  But it has happened to them according to the true proverb, “The dog turns to his own vomit again,” and “the sow that has washed to wallowing in the mire.”