Verse 8

for the poor ye have always with yourselves, and me ye have not always.'

Referenced Verses

  • Deut 15:11 : 11 because the needy one doth not cease out of the land, therefore I am commanding thee, saying, Thou dost certainly open thy hand to thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy one, in thy land.
  • Mark 14:7 : 7 for the poor always ye have with you, and whenever ye may will ye are able to do them good, but me ye have not always;
  • Matt 26:11 : 11 for the poor always ye have with you, and me ye have not always;
  • Song 5:6 : 6 I opened to my beloved, But my beloved withdrew -- he passed on, My soul went forth when he spake, I sought him, and found him not. I called him, and he answered me not.
  • John 8:21 : 21 therefore said Jesus again to them, `I go away, and ye will seek me, and in your sin ye shall die; whither I go away, ye are not able to come.'
  • John 12:35 : 35 Jesus, therefore, said to them, `Yet a little time is the light with you; walk while ye have the light, that darkness may not overtake you; and he who is walking in the darkness hath not known where he goeth;
  • John 13:33 : 33 `Little children, yet a little am I with you; ye will seek me, and, according as I said to the Jews -- Whither I go away, ye are not able to come, to you also I do say `it' now.
  • John 16:5-7 : 5 and now I go away to Him who sent me, and none of you doth ask me, Whither dost thou go? 6 but because these things I have said to you, the sorrow hath filled your heart. 7 `But I tell you the truth; it is better for you that I go away, for if I may not go away, the Comforter will not come unto you, and if I go on, I will send Him unto you;
  • Acts 1:9-9 : 9 And these things having said -- they beholding -- he was taken up, and a cloud did receive him up from their sight; 10 and as they were looking stedfastly to the heaven in his going on, then, lo, two men stood by them in white apparel, 11 who also said, `Men, Galileans, why do ye stand gazing into the heaven? this Jesus who was received up from you into the heaven, shall so come in what manner ye saw him going on to the heaven.'