Mark 14:7
You always have the poor with you and you can do them good. You do not always have me.
Deuteronomy 15:11
There will always be some Israelites who are poor and needy. That is why I am commanding you to be generous with them.
Matthew 26:11
The poor are always with you, but I am not always with you.
Matthew 25:35-45
I was hungry and you gave me something to eat. I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink. I was a stranger and you took me in.
John 12:7-8
Jesus therefore replied: Let her alone that she may preserve it for the day of my burial.
John 13:33
Little children I am with you for a little while. You will seek me and as I told the Jews now I say to you, where I go, you cannot come.
John 16:5
I go to him that sent me. None of you asks me: Where are you going?
John 16:28
I came out from the Father and came into the world. I leave the world and go to the Father.
John 17:11
I am no more in the world but they are in the world. I come to you Holy Father. Keep them in your name, which you have given to me, that they may be one*, even as we are. *(Greek: heis; united in purpose and love)
Acts 3:21
whom heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things. God spoke about this through all his holy prophets since the world began.
2 Corinthians 9:13-14
The proof of this ministry is that they glorify God for the obedience of your confession to the good news of Christ, and for your liberal sharing with them and all men.
James 2:14-16
What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith but he does not have works? Can that faith save him?
1 John 3:16-19
By this we know love, because he (Jesus) gave his life for us. We ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.