John 12:8 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

⁸ For the poor ye have always 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."

John 12:8 Cross References

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.

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.

Matthew 26:11

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

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.

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I opened to my beloved; But my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone.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.