Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.
Desiring
Crumbs
General references
Bible References
Desiring
1 Corinthians 4:11
To the present hour we hunger and thirst, we are poorly dressed and buffeted and homeless,
2 Corinthians 11:27
in toil and hardship, through many a sleepless night, in hunger and thirst, often without food, in cold and exposure.
Crumbs
Matthew 15:27
She said, "Yes, Lord, yet even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their masters' table."
Mark 7:28
But she answered him, "Yes, Lord; yet even the dogs under the table eat the children's crumbs."
John 6:12
And when they had eaten their fill, he told his disciples, "Gather up the leftover fragments, that nothing may be lost."
General references
Proverbs 28:6
Better is a poor man who walks in his integrity than a rich man who is crooked in his ways.
Luke 17:27
They were eating and drinking and marrying and being given in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.