For where two or three are gathered together in my name, I am there among them.’
Matthew 26:11 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised You always have the poor with you, but you do not always have me. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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. |
For where two or three are gathered together in my name, I am there among them.’
Aware of this, Jesus said to them, ‘Why are you bothering this woman? She has done a noble thing for me.
teaching them to observe everything I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.’
You always have the poor with you, and you can do what is good for them whenever you want, but you do not always have me.
For you always have the poor with you, but you do not always have me.’
Little children, I am with you a little while longer. You will look for me, and just as I told the Jews, so now I tell you, “Where I am going, you cannot come.”
In a little while the world will no longer see me, but you will see me. Because I live, you will live too.
I came from the Father and have come into the world. Again, I am leaving the world and going to the Father.’
But now I am going away to him who sent me, and not one of you asks me, “Where are you going? ”
I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them by your name that you have given me, so that they may be one as we are one.
Heaven must receive him until the time of the restoration of all things, which God spoke about through his holy prophets from the beginning.
They asked only that we would remember the poor, which I had made every effort to do.
For there will never cease to be poor people in the land; that is why I am commanding you, “Open your hand willingly to your poor and needy brother in your land.”
If anyone has this world’s goods and sees a fellow believer in need but withholds compassion from him #– #how does God’s love reside in him?