John 12:8
“For the poore alwayes yee haue with you: but me ye haue not alwayes.”
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John 12:8 Context
6This he said, not that he cared for the poore: but because hee was a thiefe, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein. 7Then said Iesus, Let her alone, against the day of my burying hath she kept this. 8For the poore alwayes yee haue with you: but me ye haue not alwayes. 9Much people of the Iewes therefore knew that he was there: and they came, not for Iesus sake onely, but that they might see Lazarus also, whom he had raised from the dead. 10¶ But the chiefe Priests consulted, þt they might put Lazarus also to death,
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For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always.
- King James Version
"For you always have the poor with you, but you do not always have Me."
- New American Standard Version (1995)
For the poor ye have always with you; but me ye have not always.
- American Standard Version (1901)
The poor you have ever with you, but me you have not for ever.
- Basic English Bible
for ye have the poor always with you, but me ye have not always.
- Darby Bible
For the poor ye have always with you; but me ye have not always.
- Webster's Bible
For the poor you always have with you, but you have not me always."
- Weymouth Bible
For you always have the poor with you, but you don't always have me."
- World English Bible
for ye schulen euermore haue pore men with you, but ye schulen not euermore haue me.
- Wycliffe Bible
for the poor ye have always with yourselves, and me ye have not always.'
- Youngs Literal Bible