Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
For ye always have the poor with you, and whenever ye may desire ye can do them well, but ye do not always have me.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always.
Holman Bible
International Standard Version
because you'll always have the destitute with you and can help them whenever you want, but you won't always have me.
American Standard Version
For ye have the poor always with you, and whensoever ye will ye can do them good: but me ye have not always.
Amplified
An Understandable Version
You will always have poor people with you, and you can do something good for them whenever you want to, but you will not always have me with you.
Anderson New Testament
For you have the poor with you always; and whenever you choose, you can do them good; but me you have not always.
Bible in Basic English
The poor you have ever with you, and whenever you have the desire you may do them good: but me you have not for ever.
Common New Testament
For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you will, you can do good to them; but you will not always have me.
Daniel Mace New Testament
the poor you have always with you, and you may relieve them whenever you please: but me you will not always have.
Darby Translation
for ye have the poor always with you, and whenever ye would ye can do them good; but me ye have not always.
Godbey New Testament
For you have the poor always with you, and when you wish, you are able to do them good: but you have not me always.
Goodspeed New Testament
For you always have the poor among you, and whenever you please you can do for them, but you will not always have me.
John Wesley New Testament
For ye have the poor always with you, and when ye will, ye may do them good; but me ye have not always.
Julia Smith Translation
For always have ye the poor with you, and when ye wish ye can do them good: and me ye have not always.
King James 2000
For you have the poor with you always, and whenever you will you may do them good: but me you have not always.
Lexham Expanded Bible
For the poor you always have with you, and you can do good for them whenever you want, but you do not always have me.
Modern King James verseion
For you have the poor with you always, and whenever you desire you may do them good. But you do not have Me always.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For ye shall have poor with you always: and whensoever ye will ye may do them good: but me ye shall not have always.
Moffatt New Testament
The poor you always have beside you, and you can be kind to them whenever you want; but you will not always have me.
Montgomery New Testament
She has done a beautiful thing to me. For you always have the poor among you, and can show them kindness whenever you wish, but me you will not always have.
NET Bible
For you will always have the poor with you, and you can do good for them whenever you want. But you will not always have me!
New Heart English Bible
For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you want to, you can do them good; but you will not always have me.
Noyes New Testament
For the poor ye have always with you, and whenever ye will, ye can do good to them; but me ye have not always.
Sawyer New Testament
The poor you have always with you, and you can do them good when you will; but me you have not always.
The Emphasized Bible
For, always, have ye, the destitute, with you, and whensoever ye please, ye can, unto them, at any timedo well! But, me, not, always, have ye.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
For the poor ye have always with you, and when ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always.
Twentieth Century New Testament
You always have the poor with you, and whenever you wish you can do good to them; but you will not always have me.
Webster
For ye have the poor with you always, and whenever ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always.
Weymouth New Testament
For you always have the poor among you, and whenever you choose you can do acts of kindness to them; but me you have not always.
Williams New Testament
For you always have the poor among you, and whenever you please you can do them good, but you will not always have me.
World English Bible
For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you want to, you can do them good; but you will not always have me.
Worrell New Testament
for the poor ye always have with you; and whensoever ye will, ye can do them good; but Me ye have not always.
Worsley New Testament
She has done a kind office to me. For ye have the poor always with you, and may do them good, whenever ye will; but me ye have not always.
Youngs Literal Translation
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;
Themes
Jesus Christ » History of » Anointed with precious ointment (in bethany)
Topics
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References
Word Count of 37 Translations in Mark 14:7
Verse Info
Context Readings
Jesus' Anointing At Bethany
6 But Jesus said, Leave her be. Why do ye cause troubles for her? She performed a good work on me. 7 For ye always have the poor with you, and whenever ye may desire ye can do them well, but ye do not always have me. 8 She applied what she had to anoint my body. She did it beforehand for the burial.
Names
Cross References
Deuteronomy 15:11
For the poor will never cease out of the land. Therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shall surely open thy hand to thy brother, to thy needy, and to thy poor, in thy land.
Matthew 26:11
For ye always have the poor with you, but ye do not always have me.
Matthew 25:35-45
For I was hungry, and ye gave me to eat. I was thirsty, and ye gave me to drink. I was a stranger, and ye took me in,
John 12:7-8
Jesus therefore said, Let her alone. She has keep it for the day of my burial.
John 13:33
Little children, yet a little while I am with you. Ye will seek me, and as I said to the Jews, Where I go, ye cannot come, I also now say to you.
John 16:5
But now I go to him who sent me, and none of you asks me, Where do thou go?
John 16:28
I came forth from the Father, and have come into the world. Again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.
John 17:11
And I am no more in the world, and these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep them in thy name that thou have given to me, so that they may be one, just as we.
Acts 3:21
whom heaven must indeed receive until the times of restoration of all things, of which God spoke through the mouth of all his holy prophets from the age.
2 Corinthians 9:13-14
through the evidence of this service, glorifying God at the subjection of your confession toward the good-news of the Christ, and at the generosity of the participation, for them and for all,
James 2:14-16
What is the benefit, my brothers, if some man should say to have faith, but has no works? Can the faith save him?
1 John 3:16-19
By this we know love, because that man laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.