John 12:8

KJV1611 – Modern English

For the poor you always have with you, but you do not always have me.

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  • Deut 15:11 : 11 For the poor will never cease out of the land; therefore I command you, saying, you shall open your hand wide to your brother, to your poor, and to your needy, in your land.
  • Mark 14:7 : 7 For you have the poor with you always, and whenever you will you may do them good; but me you do not have always.
  • Matt 26:11 : 11 For you always have the poor with you; but me you do not always have.
  • Song 5:6 : 6 I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone. My soul failed when he spoke: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer.
  • John 8:21 : 21 Then Jesus said again to them, I go my way, and you shall seek me, and shall die in your sins: where I go, you cannot come.
  • John 12:35 : 35 Then Jesus said to them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while you have the light, lest darkness overtake you; for he who walks in darkness does not know where he is going.
  • John 13:33 : 33 Little children, I shall be with you a little while longer. You will seek me; and as I said to the Jews, Where I am going, you cannot come, so now I say to you.
  • John 16:5-7 : 5 But now I go to Him who sent me, and none of you asks me, 'Where are you going?' 6 But because I have said these things to you, sorrow has filled your heart. 7 Nevertheless, I tell you the truth; it is beneficial for you that I go away: for if I do not go away, the Comforter will not come to you; but if I leave, I will send him to you.
  • Acts 1:9-9 : 9 And when He had spoken these things, while they watched, He was taken up, and a cloud received Him out of their sight. 10 And while they looked steadfastly toward heaven as He went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel; 11 Who also said, Men of Galilee, why do you stand gazing up into heaven? This same Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will come in like manner as you saw Him go into heaven.

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    9For this ointment might have been sold for much, and given to the poor.

    10When Jesus understood it, he said to them, Why trouble you the woman? for she has worked a good work on me.

    11For you always have the poor with you; but me you do not always have.

    12For in that she has poured this ointment on my body, she did it for my burial.

  • Mark 14:5-8
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    5For it might have been sold for more than three hundred pence, and given to the poor. And they murmured against her.

    6And Jesus said, Leave her alone; why do you trouble her? She has done a good work on me.

    7For you have the poor with you always, and whenever you will you may do them good; but me you do not have always.

    8She has done what she could; she has come beforehand to anoint my body for the burial.

  • John 12:5-7
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    5Why was this ointment not sold for three hundred pence and given to the poor?

    6This he said, not because he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and had the money bag, and used to take what was put in it.

    7Then Jesus said, Leave her alone; she has kept this for the day of my burial.

  • Luke 6:20
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    20And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said, Blessed are you poor: for yours is the kingdom of God.

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  • Deut 15:11
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    11For the poor will never cease out of the land; therefore I command you, saying, you shall open your hand wide to your brother, to your poor, and to your needy, in your land.

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    13But when you give a feast, call the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind:

    14And you shall be blessed; for they cannot repay you: for you shall be repaid at the resurrection of the just.

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    41Now Jesus sat opposite the treasury and saw how the people put money into the treasury. And many who were rich put in much.

    42Then one poor widow came and threw in two mites, which make a penny.

    43So he called his disciples to him and said to them, 'Truly I say to you, that this poor widow has put in more than all those who have given to the treasury;

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    42And I knew that you always hear me: but because of the people who stand by, I said it, that they may believe that you sent me.

  • Mark 8:1-2
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    42For I was hungry and you gave me no food; I was thirsty and you gave me no drink.

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    4Except when there are no poor among you; for the LORD will greatly bless you in the land the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance to possess it.

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    33Sell what you have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags that do not grow old, a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches, nor moth destroys.

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    35For I was hungry and you gave me food; I was thirsty and you gave me drink; I was a stranger and you took me in.

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