John 12:8 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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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I opened to my beloved; But my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone. My soul had failed me when he spake: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer.

Matthew 26:11

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

Mark 14:7

For ye have the poor always with you, and whensoever ye will ye can do them good: but me ye have not always.

John 12:35

Jesus therefore said unto them, Yet a little while is the light among you. Walk while ye have the light, that darkness overtake you not: and he that walketh in the darkness knoweth not whither he goeth.

John 13:33

Little children, yet a little while I am with you. Ye shall seek me: and as I said unto the Jews, Whither I go, ye cannot come; so now I say unto you.

John 8:21

He said therefore again unto them, I go away, and ye shall seek me, and shall die in your sin: whither I go, ye cannot come.

Deuteronomy 15:11

For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt surely open thine hand unto thy brother, to thy needy, and to thy poor, in thy land.