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 to his very hour we are enduring hunger and thirst and nakedness and blows.
2 Corinthians 11:27
in toil and weariness, often in sleepless watching, in hunger and thirst, often without anything to eat; in cold and in nakedness.
Crumbs
Matthew 15:27
"True, Lord," she said, "but even the little dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their master's table."
Mark 7:28
"True, Master," she answered, "but the dogs under the table do pick up the children's crumbs."
John 6:12
and when they were satisfied, he said to his disciples, "Gather up the fragments that are left, so that nothing may be wasted."
General references
Luke 17:27
"Men were eating and drinking; they were marrying and being married, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.