John 12:8
For the poor ye have always with you; but me ye have not always.
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- Deuteronomy 15:11 For the poor will never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt surely open thy hand unto thy brother, to thy needy, and to thy poor, in thy land.
- Mark 14:7 For ye have the poor always with you, and whensoever ye will ye can do them good: but me ye have not always.
- Matthew 26:11 For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.