Mark 14:7
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.
Read Mark 14 Compare translations Original words
Cross references
- Deuteronomy 15:11 For the poor will never cease out of the land. Therefore I command you to surely open your hand to your brother, to your needy, and to your poor, in your land.
- Matthew 26:11 For you always have the poor with you, but you don’t always have me.
- James 2:14–16 What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him? And if a brother or sister is naked and in lack of daily food, and one of you tells them, “Go in peace. Be warmed and filled;” yet you didn’t give them the things the body needs, what good is it?