Mark 14:7
Good News Translation
You will always have poor people with you, and any time you want to, you can help them. But you will not always have me.

New Revised Standard Version
For you always have the poor with you, and you can show kindness to them whenever you wish; but you will not always have me.

Contemporary English Version
You will always have the poor with you. And whenever you want to, you can give to them. But you won't always have me here with you.

New American Bible
The poor you will always have with you, and whenever you wish you can do good to them, but you will not always have me.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For the poor you have always with you: and whensoever you will, you may do them good: but me you have not always.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For the poor you have always with you: and whensoever you will, you may do them good: but me you have not always.

ye have.

Deuteronomy 15:11 There will not be wanting poor in the land of thy habitation: therefore I command thee to open thy hand to thy needy and poor brother, that liveth in the land.

Matthew 25:35-45 For I was hungry, and you gave me to eat: I was thirsty, and you gave me to drink: I was a stranger, and you took me in: . . .

Matthew 26:11 For the poor you have always with you: but me you have not always.

John 12:7,8 Jesus therefore said: Let her alone, that she may keep it against the day of my burial. . . .

2 Corinthians 9:13,14 By the proof of this ministry, glorifying God for the obedience of your confession unto the gospel of Christ and for the simplicity of your communicating unto them and unto all. . . .

Philemon 1:7 For I have had great joy and consolation in thy charity, because the bowels of the saints have been refreshed by thee, brother.

James 2:14-16 What shall it profit, my brethren, if a man say he hath faith, but hath not works? Shall faith be able to save him? . . .

1 John 3:16-19 In this we have known the charity of God, because he hath laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. . . .

but.

John 13:33 Little children, yet a little while I am with you. You shall seek me. And as I said to the Jews: Whither I go you cannot come; so I say to you now.

John 16:5,28 But I told you not these things from the beginning, because I was with you. And now I go to him that sent me, and none of you asketh me: Whither goest thou? . . .

John 17:11 And now I am not in the world, and these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep them in thy name whom thou hast given me: that they may be one, as we also are.

Acts 3:21 Whom heaven indeed must receive, until the times of the restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of his holy prophets, from the beginning of the world.

Context
Jesus Anointed at Bethany
6But Jesus said: Let her alone. Why do You molest her? She hath wrought a good work upon me. 7For the poor you have always with you: and whensoever you will, you may do them good: but me you have not always. 8She hath done what she could: she is come beforehand to anoint my body for the burial.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 15:11
There will not be wanting poor in the land of thy habitation: therefore I command thee to open thy hand to thy needy and poor brother, that liveth in the land.

Matthew 26:11
For the poor you have always with you: but me you have not always.

Mark 14:6
But Jesus said: Let her alone. Why do You molest her? She hath wrought a good work upon me.

John 12:8
For the poor you have always with you: but me you have not always.

Mark 14:6
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