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
Even until this present hour we both hunger and thirst and are naked and are buffeted and have no certain dwelling place.
2 Corinthians 11:27
I have been in hardship and toil; often in watchings; in hunger and thirst; often in fastings; in cold and nakedness;
Crumbs
Matthew 15:27
And she said, True, O Lord; but even the little dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' tables.
Mark 7:28
And she answered and said to Him, Yes, Lord, yet the dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs.
John 6:12
And when they were filled, He said to His disciples, Gather up the fragments left over, so that nothing is lost.
General references
Proverbs 28:6
Better is the poor who walks in his uprightness than he who is perverse in his ways, though he is rich.
Luke 17:27
They ate, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark; and the flood came and destroyed them all.