John 12:8 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

⁸ For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ You always have the poor with you, but you do not always have Me.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ For the poor ye have always with you; but me ye have not always.

Common English Bible

⁸ You will always have the poor among you, but you won’t always have me.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ For the poor, you have with you always. But me, you do always not have."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁸ 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I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone: my soul failed when he spake: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer.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 with you always, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always.

John 12:35

Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walketh in 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 to you.

John 8:21

Then said Jesus again unto them, I go my way, and ye shall seek me, and shall die in your sins: 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 open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.