John 12:8 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

You always have the poor with you, but you do not always have me.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

You always have the poor with you, but you do not always have Me.

American Standard Version (1901)

For the poor ye have always with you; but me ye have not always.

Common English Bible

You will always have the poor among you, but you won’t always have me.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

For the poor, you have with you always. But me, you do always not have."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

For the poor you have always with you; but me you have not always.

John 12:8 Cross References

Song of Solomon 5:6

I opened to my beloved, but my beloved had turned away and was gone. My soul failed me when he spoke. I sought him but did not find him; I called him, but he gave no answer.

Matthew 26:11

For you always have the poor with you, but you will not always have me.

Mark 14:7

For you always have the poor with you, and you can show kindness to them whenever you wish, but you will not always have me.

John 12:35

Jesus said to them, “The light is in you for a little longer. Walk while you have the light, so that the darkness may not overtake you. If you walk in the darkness, you do not know where you are going.

John 13:33

Little children, I am with you only a little 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 8:21

Again he said to them, “I am going away, and you will search for me, but you will die in your sin. Where I am going, you cannot come.”

Deuteronomy 15:11

Since there will never cease to be some in need on the earth, I therefore command you, ‘Open your hand to the poor and needy neighbor in your land.’