John 12:8 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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

More versions

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 and gone. My soul failed me when he spoke. I sought him, but found him not; 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 whenever you will, you can do good to them; but you will not always have me.

John 12:35

Jesus said to them, “The light is with you for a little longer. Walk while you have the light, lest the darkness overtake you; he who walks in the darkness does not know where he goes.

John 13:33

Little children, yet a little while I am with you. You will seek 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 go away, and you will seek me and die in your sin; where I am going, you cannot come.”

Deuteronomy 15:11

For the poor will never cease out of the land; therefore I command you, You shall open wide your hand to your brother, to the needy and to the poor, in the land.