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For you always have the poor with you; but you don’t always have me.
Matthew 26:11 · World English Bible
Parallel translations
  • KJV For ye have the poor always 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 you have the poor 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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Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 15

  • 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.
  • John 12:8For you always have the poor with you, but you don’t always have me.”
  • John 16:28I came from the Father, and have come into the world. Again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.”
  • 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 16:5But now I am going to him who sent me, and none of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’
  • John 14:19Yet a little while, and the world will see me no more; but you will see me. Because I live, you will live also.
  • Matt 28:20teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.
  • Matt 25:42–45for I was hungry, and you didn’t give me food to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave me no drink;
  • Matt 25:34–40Then the King will tell those on his right hand, ‘Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world;
  • John 17:11I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them through your name which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are.
  • Acts 3:21whom heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things, which God spoke long ago by the mouth of his holy prophets.
  • Matt 18:20For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there I am in the middle of them.”
  • Gal 2:10They only asked us to remember the poor — which very thing I was also zealous to do.
  • 1 Jn 3:17But whoever has the world’s goods, and sees his brother in need, and closes his heart of compassion against him, how does God’s love remain in him?

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