Verse 8

"For you will always have the poor with you, but you will not always have Me."

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  • Deut 15:11 : 11 For there will never cease to be poor people in the land. Therefore, I command you to freely open your hand to your brother, to the needy, and to the poor in your land.
  • Mark 14:7 : 7 For you will always have the poor with you, and you can help them whenever you want, but you will not always have me.
  • Matt 26:11 : 11 For you will always have the poor with you, but you will not always have Me.
  • Song 5:6 : 6 I opened to my beloved, but he had withdrawn and was gone. My soul failed when he spoke. I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he did not answer.
  • John 8:21 : 21 Then he said to them again, "I am going away, and you will look for me, but you will die in your sin. Where I am going, you cannot come."
  • John 12:35 : 35 Then Jesus said to them, "The light will be with you only a little while longer. Walk while you have the light, so that darkness does not overtake you. The one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.
  • John 13:33 : 33 'Little children, I am with you only 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.'
  • John 16:5-7 : 5 But now I am going to the one who sent me, and none of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’ 6 Instead, because I have said these things to you, sorrow has filled your hearts. 7 But I tell you the truth: It is for your benefit that I am going away. If I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.
  • Acts 1:9-9 : 9 After He had said this, He was taken up as they were watching, and a cloud hid Him from their sight. 10 As they were gazing intently into the sky while He was going, suddenly two men in white robes stood beside them. 11 They said, "Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way that you have seen Him go into heaven."