Verse 11

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

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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.
  • John 12:8 : 8 For the poor you always have with you, but you do not 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 forth 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 I have commanded you; and, lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age. Amen.
  • John 17:11 : 11 And now I am no longer in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to you. Holy Father, keep through your own name those whom you have given me, that they may be one, as we are.
  • Gal 2:10 : 10 They only desired that we should remember the poor, the very thing which I also was eager to do.
  • 1 John 3:17 : 17 But whoever has this world's goods, and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his compassion from him, how does the love of God abide in him?
  • Matt 25:34-40 : 34 Then the King will say to those on his right hand, Come, you 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; 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 drink? 38 When did we see you a stranger and take you in, or naked and clothe you? 39 Or when did we see you sick, or in prison, and come to you? 40 And the King will answer and say to them, Truly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these my brethren, you did it to me.
  • Matt 25:42-45 : 42 For I was hungry and you gave me no food; I was thirsty and you gave me no drink. 43 I was a stranger and you did not take me in; naked and you did not clothe me; sick and in prison and you did not visit me. 44 Then they also will answer him, saying, Lord, when did we see you hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister to you? 45 Then he will answer them, saying, Truly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to me.
  • 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 14:19 : 19 Yet a little while, and the world sees me no more; but you see me: because I live, you will live also.
  • John 16:5 : 5 But now I go to Him who sent me, and none of you asks me, 'Where are you going?'
  • Acts 3:21 : 21 Whom the heavens must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God has spoken by the mouth of all His holy prophets since the world began.