Matthew 26:11

World English Bible (2000)

For you always have the poor with you; but you don't 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 surely open your hand to your brother, to your needy, and to your poor, in your land.
  • Mark 14:7 : 7 For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you want to, you can do them good; but you will not always have me.
  • John 12:8 : 8 For you always have the poor with you, but you don't always have me."
  • Matt 18:20 : 20 For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there I am in the midst of them."
  • John 16:28 : 28 I came out from the Father, and have come into the world. Again, I leave the world, and go to the Father."
  • Matt 28:20 : 20 teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age." Amen.
  • John 17:11 : 11 I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them through your name which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are.
  • Gal 2:10 : 10 They only asked us to remember the poor--which very thing I was also zealous to do.
  • 1 John 3:17 : 17 But whoever has the world's goods, and sees his brother in need, and closes his heart of compassion against him, how does the love of God remain in him?
  • Matt 25:34-40 : 34 Then the King will tell those on his right hand, 'Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world; 35 for I was hungry, and you gave me food to eat. I was thirsty, and you gave me drink. I was a stranger, and you took me in. 36 I was naked, and you clothed me. I was sick, and you visited me. I was in prison, and you came to me.' 37 "Then the righteous will answer him, saying, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry, and feed you; or thirsty, and give you a drink? 38 When did we see you as a stranger, and take you in; or naked, and clothe you? 39 When did we see you sick, or in prison, and come to you?' 40 "The King will answer them, 'Most certainly I tell you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.'
  • Matt 25:42-45 : 42 for I was hungry, and you didn't give me food to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave me no drink; 43 I was a stranger, and you didn't take me in; naked, and you didn't clothe me; sick, and in prison, and you didn't visit me.' 44 "Then they will also answer, saying, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and didn't help you?' 45 "Then he will answer them, saying, 'Most certainly I tell you, inasmuch as you didn't do it to one of the least of these, you didn't do it to me.'
  • John 13:33 : 33 Little children, I will be with you a little while longer. You will seek me, and as I said to the Jews, 'Where I am going, you can't come,' so now I tell you.
  • John 14:19 : 19 Yet a little while, and the world will see me no more; but you will see me. Because I live, you will live also.
  • John 16:5 : 5 But now I am going to him who sent me, and none of you asks me, 'Where are you going?'
  • Acts 3:21 : 21 whom heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things, which God spoke long ago by the mouth of his holy prophets.

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    5 "Why wasn't this ointment sold for three hundred denarii, and given to the poor?"

    6 Now he said this, not because he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and having the money box, used to steal what was put into it.

    7 But Jesus said, "Leave her alone. She has kept this for the day of my burial.

    8 For you always have the poor with you, but you don't always have me."

  • Mark 14:5-9
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    5 For this might have been sold for more than three hundred denarii, and given to the poor." They grumbled against her.

    6 But Jesus said, "Leave her alone. Why do you trouble her? She has done a good work for me.

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

    8 She has done what she could. She has anointed my body beforehand for the burying.

    9 Most certainly I tell you, wherever this Good News may be preached throughout the whole world, that which this woman has done will also be spoken of for a memorial of her."

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

    10 However, knowing this, Jesus said to them, "Why do you trouble the woman? Because she has done a good work for me.

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    12 For in pouring this ointment on my body, she did it to prepare me for burial.

    13 Most certainly I tell you, wherever this Good News is preached in the whole world, what this woman has done will also be spoken of as a memorial of her."

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

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    20 He lifted up his eyes to his disciples, and said, "Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the Kingdom of God.

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    18 For the needy shall not always be forgotten, nor the hope of the poor perish forever.

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    41 Jesus sat down opposite the treasury, and saw how the multitude cast money into the treasury. Many who were rich cast in much.

    42 A poor widow came, and she cast in two small brass coins, which equal a quadrans coin.

    43 He called his disciples to himself, and said to them, "Most certainly I tell you, this poor widow gave more than all those who are giving into the treasury,

    44 for they all gave out of their abundance, but she, out of her poverty, gave all that she had to live on."

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    13 But when you make a feast, ask the poor, the maimed, the lame, or the blind;

    14 and you will be blessed, because they don't have the resources to repay you. For you will be repaid in the resurrection of the righteous."

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    28 But you are those who have continued with me in my trials.

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    6 But you have dishonored the poor man. Don't the rich oppress you, and personally drag you before the courts?

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    45 You gave me no kiss, but she, since the time I came in, has not ceased to kiss my feet.

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    1 He looked up, and saw the rich people who were putting their gifts into the treasury.

    2 He saw a certain poor widow casting in two small brass coins.

    3 He said, "Truly I tell you, this poor widow put in more than all of them,

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    43 I was a stranger, and you didn't take me in; naked, and you didn't clothe me; sick, and in prison, and you didn't visit me.'

    44 "Then they will also answer, saying, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and didn't help you?'

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    6 Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper,

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    35 for I was hungry, and you gave me food to eat. I was thirsty, and you gave me drink. I was a stranger, and you took me in.

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    30 You shall set bread of the presence on the table before me always.

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