Matthew 26:11
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“The poor you will always have with you, but you will not always have Me.”
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BSBPD
“The poor you will always have with you, but you will not always have Me.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“for the poor always ye have with you, and me ye have not always;”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Matthew 26:11 — 15 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 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.
- Matthew 18:20For where two or three gather together in My name, there am I with them.”
- Matthew 25:34Then 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.
- Matthew 25:42For I was hungry and you gave Me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave Me nothing to drink,
- 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.”
- 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 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.’
- 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 16:5Now, however, I am going to Him who sent Me; yet none of you asks Me, ‘Where are You going?’
- John 16:28I came from the Father and entered the world. In turn, I will leave the world and go to the Father.”
- 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.
- 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.
- 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?
Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).
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