Mark 14:7

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“The poor you will always have with you, and you can help them whenever you want. But you will not always have Me.”

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BSBPD

“The poor you will always have with you, and you can help them whenever you want. But you will not always have Me.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“For ye have the poor always with you, and whensoever ye will ye can do them good: but me ye have not always.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“for the poor always ye have with you, and whenever ye may will ye are able to do them good, but me ye have not always;”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Mark 14:7 — 13 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. 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.
  2. Matthew 25:35For I was hungry and you gave Me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave Me something to drink, I was a stranger and you took Me in,
  3. Matthew 26:11The poor you will always have with you, but you will not always have Me.
  4. John 12:7“Leave her alone,” Jesus replied. “She has kept this perfume in preparation for the day of My burial.
  5. 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.’
  6. John 16:5Now, however, I am going to Him who sent Me; yet none of you asks Me, ‘Where are You going?’
  7. John 16:28I came from the Father and entered the world. In turn, I will leave the world and go to the Father.”
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 2 Corinthians 9:13Because of the proof this ministry provides, the saints will glorify God for your obedient confession of the gospel of Christ, and for the generosity of your contribution to them and to all the others.
  11. Philemon 1:7I take great joy and encouragement in your love, because you, brother, have refreshed the hearts of the saints.
  12. James 2:14What good is it, my brothers, if someone claims to have faith, but has no deeds? Can such faith save him?
  13. 1 John 3:16By this we know what love is: Jesus laid down His life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.

Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

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