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Matthew 26:11

For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.

KJV

πάντοτε γὰρ τοὺς πτωχοὺς ἔχετε μεθ’ ἑαυτῶν, ἐμὲ δὲ οὐ πάντοτε ἔχετε.

Greek NT

Nam semper pauperes habetis vobiscum : me autem non semper habetis.

Vulgate

For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.

ASV

For the poor you have always with you: but me you have not always.

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×
o
article · 19778×

Historic Christian voices

2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

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Cross-references

  • Acts 3:21 — Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began.
  • 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 12:8 — For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always.
  • John 12:8 — For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always.
  • 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 14:19 — Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.
  • John 16:5 — But now I go my way to him that sent me; and none of you asketh me, Whither goest thou?
  • John 16:28 — I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.
  • John 17:11 — And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.
  • Luke 8:3 — And Joanna the wife of Chuza Herod’s steward, and Susanna, and many others, which ministered unto him of their substance.
  • 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.
  • 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 18:20 — For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.
  • Matt 25:34 — Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:
  • Matt 25:35 — For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:
  • Matt 25:42 — For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink:
  • Matt 28:20 — Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.
  • Rom 12:16 — Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits.