Pearls before swine

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"Pearls before swine" and "casting pearls" refer to a quotation from Matthew 7:6 in Jesus's Sermon on the Mount: "Do not give what is holy to the dogs; nor cast your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you in pieces."

Pearls before swine may also refer to:

Music

• "Casting Pearls Before the Swine", a bonus song by Yngwie Malmsteen, from the album Facing the Animal
• Pearls Before Swine (band), an American psychedelic folk band
• "Pearls Before Swine", a song by Coldcut from their 1993 album Philosophy
• "Pearls before the Swine", a song by Machine Head from their album Unto the Locust
• "Pearls Before Swine", a song by Corrosion of Conformity from their album Deliverance
• Perler for Svin, a 1996 album by Norwegian rock band Raga Rockers
• Parels voor de Zwijnen, a 2005 album by Dutch group De Jeugd van Tegenwoordig

Other uses

• Pearls Before Swine (comics), a comic strip by American cartoonist Stephan Pastis
• Pearls Before Swine (film), a 1999 Australian movie starring Boyd Rice
• Pearls Before Swine, a puzzle/logic game using the Nim format
• Pearls Before Swine, the twelfth novel in the Albert Campion series by Margery Allingham (published in UK as Coroner's Pidgin)
• God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (also known as Pearls Before Swine), a novel by Kurt Vonnegut

See also

• Casting Pearls (album), the debut album by Christian rock band VOTA (formerly named Casting Pearls)
• Casting Pearls, the fourth album by Welsh rock band Melys