For you always have the poor with you, but you don’t always have me.”
Parallel translations
- KJV For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always.
- BSB The poor you will always have with you, but you will not always have Me.”
- NKJV For the poor you have with you always, but Me you do not have always.”
- NASB For you always have the poor with you, but you do not always have Me.”
- NLT You will always have the poor among you, but you will not always have me.”
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- Deut 15:11For the poor will never cease out of the land. Therefore I command you to surely open your hand to your brother, to your needy, and to your poor, in your land.
- Mark 14:7For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you want to, you can do them good; but you will not always have me.
- Matt 26:11For you always have the poor with you; but you don’t always have me.
- John 12:35Jesus therefore said to them, “Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, that darkness doesn’t overtake you. He who walks in the darkness doesn’t know where he is going.
- John 13:33Little children, I will be with you a little while longer. You will seek me, and as I said to the Jews, ‘Where I am going, you can’t come,’ so now I tell you.
- John 8:21Jesus said therefore again to them, “I am going away, and you will seek me, and you will die in your sins. Where I go, you can’t come.”
- John 16:5–7But now I am going to him who sent me, and none of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’
- Acts 1:9–11When he had said these things, as they were looking, he was taken up, and a cloud received him out of their sight.
- Song 5:6I opened to my beloved; but my beloved left; and had gone away. My heart went out when he spoke. I looked for him, but I didn’t find him. I called him, but he didn’t answer.
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