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Matthew 15:26

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But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children’s bread, and to cast it to dogs.

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  1. Matthew 15:24

    But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

  2. Matthew 15:25

    Then came she and worshipped him, saying, Lord, help me.

  3. Matthew 15:27

    And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters’ table.

  4. Matthew 15:28

    Then Jesus answered and said unto her, O woman, great is thy faith: be it unto thee even as thou wilt. And her daughter was made whole from that very hour.

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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.