7The poor you will always have with you, and you can help them any time you want. But you will not always have me.


In Context

4 Some of those present were saying indignantly to one another, "Why this waste of perfume?

5 It could have been sold for more than a year's wages and the money given to the poor." And they rebuked her harshly.

6 "Leave her alone," said Jesus. "Why are you bothering her? She has done a beautiful thing to me.

7 The poor you will always have with you, and you can help them any time you want. But you will not always have me.

8 She did what she could. She poured perfume on my body beforehand to prepare for my burial.

9 I tell you the truth, wherever the gospel is preached throughout the world, what she has done will also be told, in memory of her."

Mark 14:7 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

14:7For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

14:7For the poor you have always with you: and whensoever you will, you may do them good: but me you have not always.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

14:7For ye have the poor always with you, and whensoever ye will ye can do them good: but me ye have not always.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

14:7for ye have the poor always with you, and whenever ye would ye can do them good; but me ye have not always.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

14:7For ye have the poor always with you, and whensoever ye will ye can do them good: but me ye have not always.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

14:7For ye have the poor with you always, and whenever ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

14:7For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you want to, you can do them good; but you will not always have me.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

14:7for the poor always ye have with you, and whenever ye may will ye are able to do them good, but me ye have not always;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

14:7For you have the poor with you always, and whenever you will you may do them good: but me you have not always.