John 12:6 - New Revised Standard Version

⁶ (He said this not because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief; he kept the common purse and used to steal what was put into it.)

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ Now he did not say this because he cared for the poor but because he was a thief; and having the bag (the money box, the purse of the Twelve), he took for himself what was put into it [pilfering the collections].

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ Now this he said, not because he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and having the bag took away what was put therein.

Common English Bible

⁶ He said this not because he cared about the poor but because he was a thief. He carried the money bag and would take what was in it.)

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ Now he said this, not out of concern for the needy, but because he was a thief and, since he held the purse, he used to carry what was put into it.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶ Now he said this, not because he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and having the purse, carried the things that were put therein.

John 12:6 Tagairtí Cros

Psalm 14:1

Fools say in their hearts, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds; there is no one who does good.

Proverbs 29:7

The righteous know the rights of the poor; the wicked have no such understanding.

Ezekiel 33:31

They come to you as people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but they will not obey them. For flattery is on their lips, but their heart is set on their gain.

Matthew 21:13

He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer’; but you are making it a den of robbers.”

Luke 8:3

and Joanna, the wife of Herod's steward Chuza, and Susanna, and many others, who provided for them out of their resources.

John 10:13

The hired hand runs away because a hired hand does not care for the sheep.

John 12:5

“Why was this perfume not sold for three hundred denarii and the money given to the poor?”

John 13:29

Some thought that, because Judas had the common purse, Jesus was telling him, “Buy what we need for the festival”; or, that he should give something to the poor.

1 Corinthians 6:10

thieves, the greedy, drunkards, revilers, robbers—none of these will inherit the kingdom of God.

Galatians 2:10

They asked only one thing, that we remember the poor, which was actually what I was eager to do.

1 Thessalonians 5:22

abstain from every form of evil.

James 2:2

For if a person with gold rings and in fine clothes comes into your assembly, and if a poor person in dirty clothes also comes in,

James 2:6

But you have dishonored the poor. Is it not the rich who oppress you? Is it not they who drag you into court?