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Bible Verses About Dogs
Find Bible verses about dogs — curated from 31,000+ verses with emotional and contextual scoring. What Scripture actually says.
What does the Bible say about dogs?
The Bible addresses dogs with deep compassion and clarity. From the Psalms to the words of Jesus, Scripture meets you in this exact feeling and offers comfort, strength, and direction. Here are the most powerful verses — each chosen because they speak directly to what you're going through.
Most Powerful Verses
Psalms 22:16
“For dogs have surrounded me. A company of evildoers have enclosed me. They have pierced my hands and feet.”
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Mark 7:28
“But she answered him, "Yes, Lord. Yet even the dogs under the table eat the children's crumbs."”
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Matthew 15:27
“But she said, "Yes, Lord, but even the dogs eat the crumbs which fall from their masters' table."”
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Isaiah 56:11
“Yes, the dogs are greedy, they can never have enough; and these are shepherds who can't understand: they have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, from every quarter.”
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Isaiah 56:10
“His watchmen are blind, they are all without knowledge; they are all mute dogs, they can't bark; dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.”
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1 Kings 16:4
“The dogs will eat Baasha's descendants who die in the city; and he who dies of his in the field the birds of the sky will eat."”
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.”
Mark 7:27
“But Jesus said to her, "Let the children be filled first, for it is not appropriate to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs."”
2 Kings 9:10
“The dogs will eat Jezebel on the plot of ground of Jezreel, and there shall be none to bury her.'" He opened the door, and fled.”
Psalms 59:6
“They return at evening, howling like dogs, and prowl around the city.”
1 Kings 21:23
“Yahweh also spoke of Jezebel, saying, "The dogs shall eat Jezebel by the rampart of Jezreel.”
Matthew 15:26
“But he answered, "It is not appropriate to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs."”
1 Kings 22:38
“They washed the chariot by the pool of Samaria; and the dogs licked up his blood where the prostitutes washed themselves; according to the word of Yahweh which he spoke.”
Jeremiah 15:3
“I will appoint over them four kinds, says Yahweh: the sword to kill, and the dogs to tear, and the birds of the sky, and the animals of the earth, to devour and to destroy.”
1 Kings 21:24
“The dogs will eat he who dies of Ahab in the city; and the birds of the sky will eat he who dies in the field."”
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Job 30:1 — “"But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to p...”
Psalms 68:23 — “That you may crush them, dipping your foot in blood, that the tongues of your dogs may have their po...”
Philippians 3:2 — “Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of the false circumcision....”
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