Verse 11

‹For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.›

Referenced Verses

  • Deut 15:11 : 11 For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.
  • Mark 14:7 : 7 ‹For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always.›
  • John 12:8 : 8 ‹For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always.›
  • Matt 18:20 : 20 ‹For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.›
  • John 16:28 : 28 ¶ ‹I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.›
  • Matt 28:20 : 20 ‹Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway,› [even] ‹unto the end of the world.› Amen.
  • John 17:11 : 11 ¶ ‹And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we› [are].
  • Gal 2:10 : 10 Only [they would] that we should remember the poor; the same which I also was forward to do.
  • 1 John 3:17 : 17 But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels [of compassion] from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?
  • Matt 25:34-40 : 34 ‹Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:› 35 ‹For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:› 36 ‹Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.› 37 ‹Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed› [thee]? ‹or thirsty, and gave› [thee] ‹drink?› 38 ‹When saw we thee a stranger, and took› [thee] ‹in? or naked, and clothed› [thee]? 39 ‹Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?› 40 ‹And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done› [it] ‹unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done› [it] ‹unto me.›
  • Matt 25:42-45 : 42 ‹For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink:› 43 ‹I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.› 44 ‹Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?› 45 ‹Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did› [it] ‹not to one of the least of these, ye did› [it] ‹not to me.›
  • John 13:33 : 33 ‹Little children, yet a little while I am with you. Ye shall seek me: and as I said unto the Jews, Whither I go, ye cannot come; so now I say to you.›
  • John 14:19 : 19 ‹Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.›
  • John 16:5 : 5 ‹But now I go my way to him that sent me; and none of you asketh me, Whither goest thou?›
  • Acts 3:21 : 21 Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began.