John 12:8
"For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always."
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- Deuteronomy 15:11
"For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land."
Read in chapter → - Mark 14:7
"For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always."
Read in chapter → - John 12:35
"Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth."
Read in chapter → - Matthew 26:11
"For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always."
Read in chapter → - John 13:33
"Little children, yet a little while I am with you. Ye shall seek me: and as I said unto the Jews, Whither I go, ye cannot come; so now I say to you."
Read in chapter → - John 8:21
"Then said Jesus again unto them, I go my way, and ye shall seek me, and shall die in your sins: whither I go, ye cannot come."
Read in chapter → - John 16:5
"But now I go my way to him that sent me; and none of you asketh me, Whither goest thou?"
Read in chapter → - Acts 1:9
"And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight."
Read in chapter → - Song of Solomon 5:6
"I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone: my soul failed when he spake: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer."
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