your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under
their feet, and turn again and rend you. Ask, and it shall
be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall
be opened unto you: for everyone that asketh receiveth;
and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it
shall be opened. Or what man is there of you, whom if his
son ask bread, will he give him a stone? Or if he ask a
fish, will he give him a serpent? If ye then, being evil,
know how to give good gifts unto your children, how
much more shall your Father which is in heaven give
good things to them that ask Him? Therefore all things
whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye
even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.
Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's
clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Matt.
7:6-12, 15.
