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.

General references

Bible References

Desiring

1 Corinthians 4:11
Even to this present hour we both hunger and thirst. We are naked. We are treated badly and we are homeless.
2 Corinthians 11:27
In weariness and painfulness, in watching often, in hunger and thirst, in fasting often, in cold and nakedness.

Crumbs

Matthew 15:27
She said: Yes, Lord; but even the dogs take the scraps from under their masters' table.
Mark 7:28
She answered: Yes Lord, even the dogs under the table eat from the children's crumbs.
John 6:12
When they were filled he told the disciples to gather up the broken pieces left over so nothing would be wasted.

General references

Proverbs 28:6
Better is the poor man who walks in uprightness, than the rich man who is perverse in his ways.
Luke 17:27
They ate, they drank and they got married until Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came, and destroyed them all.