Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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

General references

Bible References

Ye have

Deuteronomy 15:11
For there will never cease to be poor people in the land; that is why I am commanding you, ‘You must willingly open your hand to your afflicted and poor brother in your land.’
Matthew 25:35
For 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;
Matthew 26:11
You always have the poor with you, but you do not always have Me.
John 12:7
Jesus answered, “Leave her alone; she has kept it for the day of My burial.
2 Corinthians 9:13
They will glorify God for your obedience to the confession of the gospel of Christ, and for your generosity in sharing with them and with others through the proof provided by this service.
Philemon 1:7
For I have great joy and encouragement from your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, brother.
James 2:14
What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can his faith save him?
1 John 3:16
This is how we have come to know love: He laid down His life for us. We should also lay down our lives for our brothers.

But

John 13:33
“Children, I am with you a little while longer. You will look for Me, and just as I told the Jews, ‘Where I am going you cannot come,’ so now I tell you.
John 16:5
“But now I am going away to Him who sent Me, and not one of you asks Me, ‘Where are You going?’
John 17:11
I am no longer in the world,
but they are in the world,
and I am coming to You.
Holy Father,
protect them by Your name
that You have given Me,
so that they may be one as We are one.
Acts 3:21
Heaven must welcome Him until the times of the restoration of all things, which God spoke about by the mouth of His holy prophets from the beginning.

General references

Proverbs 3:9
Honor the Lord with your possessions
and with the first produce of your entire harvest;
James 2:15
If a brother or sister is without clothes and lacks daily food

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