Luke 16:21
‹And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.›
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Referenced Verses
- Matt 15:27 : 27 And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table.
- Mark 7:28 : 28 And she answered and said unto him, Yes, Lord: yet the dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs.
- John 6:12 : 12 When they were filled, he said unto his disciples, ‹Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost.›
- 1 Cor 4:11 : 11 Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace;
- 2 Cor 11:27 : 27 In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
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