Luke 16:21 - The Scriptures 2009

²¹ and longing to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man’s table. Indeed, even the dogs came and licked his sores.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²¹ He [eagerly] desired to be satisfied with what fell from the rich man's table; moreover, the dogs even came and licked his sores.

American Standard Version (1901)

²¹ and desiring to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man’s table; yea, even the dogs came and licked his sores.

Common English Bible

²¹ Lazarus longed to eat the crumbs that fell from the rich man’s table. Instead, dogs would come and lick his sores.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²¹ wanting to be filled with the crumbs which were falling from the wealthy man's table. But no one gave it to him. And even the dogs came and licked his sores.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²¹ Desiring to be filled with the crumbs that fell from the rich man's table, and no one did give him; moreover the dogs came, and licked his sores.

Luke 16:21 Cross References

Matthew 15:27

But she said, “Yes Master, for even the little dogs eat the crumbs which fall from their masters’ table.”

Mark 7:28

But she answering, said to Him, “Yes, Master, for even the little dogs under the table eat from the children’s crumbs.”

Luke 16:20

And there was a certain beggar named El‛azar, being covered with sores, who was placed at his gate,”

Luke 16:22

“And it came to be that the beggar died, and was carried by the messengers to the bosom of Aḇraham. And the rich man also died and was buried.

John 6:12

And when they were filled, He said to His taught ones, “Gather the broken pieces that are left over, so that none gets wasted.”

1 Corinthians 4:11

Until the present hour we both hunger and thirst, and we are scantily clad, and beaten, and homeless,

2 Corinthians 11:27

in toil and hardship, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness,