Luke 16:21

KJV1611 – Modern English

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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  • 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 to him, Yes, Lord, yet even the dogs under the table eat from the children's crumbs.
  • John 6:12 : 12 When they were filled, he said to his disciples, Gather up the fragments that remain, so that nothing is lost.
  • 1 Cor 4:11 : 11 Even to this present hour we both hunger and thirst, and we are poorly clothed, and beaten, and homeless.
  • 2 Cor 11:27 : 27 In weariness and toil, in sleeplessness often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

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