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Jesus Anointed at Bethany

Matthew 26:11

In 9 translations

BSB
The poor you will always have with you, but you will not always have Me.See Deuteronomy 15:11.
KJV
For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.
WEB
For you always have the poor with you, but you don’t always have me.
ASV
For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.
LSV
for you always have the poor with you, and you do not always have Me;
YLT
for the poor always ye have with you, and me ye have not always;
DBY
For ye have the poor always with you, but me ye have not always.
DRC
For the poor you have always with you: but me you have not always.
GNV
For yee haue the poore alwayes with you, but me shall yee not haue alwaies.

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Original-language editions

SBLGNT
πάντοτε γὰρ τοὺς πτωχοὺς ἔχετε μεθʼ ἑαυτῶν, ἐμὲ δὲ οὐ πάντοτε ἔχετε·
RP2018
Πάντοτε γὰρ τοὺς πτωχοὺς ἔχετε μεθ’ ἑαυτῶν, ἐμὲ δὲ οὐ πάντοτε ἔχετε.
TR-Boyd
Πάντοτε γὰρ τοὺς πτωχοὺς ἔχετε μεθ᾿ ἑαυτῶν, ἐμὲ δὲ οὐ πάντοτε ἔχετε.
SCR1894
παντοτε γαρ τους πτωχους εχετε μεθ εαυτων εμε δε ου παντοτε εχετε

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • Deuteronomy 15:11For there will never cease to be poor in the land; that is why I am commanding you to open wide your hand to your brother and to the poor and needy in your land.
  • Mark 14:7The poor you will always have with you, and you can help them whenever you want. But you will not always have Me.
  • John 12:8The poor you will always have with you, but you will not always have Me.”
  • John 16:28I came from the Father and entered the world. In turn, I will leave the world and go to the Father.”
  • John 16:5Now, however, I am going to Him who sent Me; yet none of you asks Me, ‘Where are You going?’
  • John 14:19In a little while the world will see Me no more, but you will see Me. Because I live, you also will live.
  • John 13:33Little children, I am with you only a little while longer. You will look for Me, and as I said to the Jews, so now I say to you: ‘Where I am going, you cannot come.’
  • Acts 3:21Heaven must take Him in until the time comes for the restoration of all things, which God announced long ago through His holy prophets.
  • Matthew 25:34–40Then the King will say to those on His right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave Me something to eat, I was…
  • Matthew 18:20For where two or three gather together in My name, there am I with them.”
  • Matthew 25:42–45For I was hungry and you gave Me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave Me nothing to drink, I was a stranger and you did not take Me in, I was naked and you did not clothe Me, I was sick and in prison and you did…
  • Matthew 28:20and teaching them to obey all that I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”
  • John 17:11I will no longer be in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to You. Holy Father, protect them by Your name, the name You gave Me, so that they may be one as We are one.
  • Galatians 2:10They only asked us to remember the poor, the very thing I was eager to do.
  • 1 John 3:17If anyone with earthly possessions sees his brother in need, but withholds his compassion from him, how can the love of God abide in him?

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