John 12:8
For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always.
KJV
τοὺς πτωχοὺς γὰρ πάντοτε ἔχετε μεθ’ ἑαυτῶν, ἐμὲ δὲ οὐ πάντοτε ἔχετε.
Greek NT
Pauperes enim semper habetis vobiscum : me autem non semper habetis.
Vulgate
For the poor ye have always with you; but me ye have not always.
ASV
For the poor you have always with you: but me you have not always. See the annotation of St. Matt. 26. 11.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
10 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
γάρ
gar
conjunction · 1036×
δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
μετά
meta
preposition · 469×
οὐ
ou
particle · 1626×
πάντοτε
pantote
adverb · 41×
πτωχός
ptochos
adjective · 34×
ἐγώ
ego
pronoun · 1720×
ἑαυτοῦ
eautou
reflexive_pronoun · 316×
ἔχω
echo
verb · 707×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
Historic Christian voices
3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§2449Beginning with the Old Testament, all kinds of juridical measures (the jubilee year of forgiveness of debts, prohibition of loans at interest and the keeping of collateral, the obligation to tithe, the daily payment of the day-laborer, the right to glean vines and fields) answer the exhortation of Deuteronomy: "For the poor will never cease out of the land; therefore I command …
Cross-references
- 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.
- Deut 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.
- Deut 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- John 16:5 — But now I go my way to him that sent me; and none of you asketh me, Whither goest thou?
- 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.
- Matt 26:11 — For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.
- Matt 26:11 — For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.
- Prov 14:31 — He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor.
- Song 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.