Matthew 26:11 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

For you always have the poor among you, but you will not always have Me. [Deut. 15:11.]

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

You always have the poor with you, but you won’t always have me.

Catholic Public Domain Version

For the poor you will always have with you. But you will not always have me.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

Matthew 26:11 Cross References

Matthew 18:20

For where two or three are gathered in my name, I am there among them.”

Matthew 26:10

But Jesus, aware of this, said to them, “Why do you trouble the woman? She has performed a good service for me.

Matthew 28:20

and teaching them to obey everything that I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

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 12:8

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

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 14:19

In a little while the world will no longer see me, but you will see me; because I live, you also will live.

John 16:28

I came from the Father and have come into the world; again, I am leaving the world and am going to the Father.”

John 16:5

But now I am going to him who sent me, yet none of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’

John 17:11

And now I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them in your name that you have given me, so that they may be one, as we are one.

Acts 3:21

who must remain in heaven until the time of universal restoration that God announced long ago through his holy prophets.

Galatians 2:10

They asked only one thing, that we remember the poor, which was actually what I was eager to do.

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.’

1 John 3:17

How does God’s love abide in anyone who has the world’s goods and sees a brother or sister in need and yet refuses help?