8For you always have the poor with you, but you don't always have me.|


In Context

5 |Why wasn't this ointment sold for three hundred denarii, and given to the poor?|

6 Now he said this, not because he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and having the money box, used to steal what was put into it.

7 But Jesus said, |Leave her alone. She has kept this for the day of my burial.

8 For you always have the poor with you, but you don't always have me.|

9 A large crowd therefore of the Jews learned that he was there, and they came, not for Jesus' sake only, but that they might see Lazarus also, whom he had raised from the dead.

10 But the chief priests conspired to put Lazarus to death also,

John 12:8 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

12:8For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

12:8You will always have the poor among you, but you will not always have me."

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

12:8For the poor you have always with you; but me you have not always.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

12:8For the poor ye have always with you; but me ye have not always.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

12:8for ye have the poor always with you, but me ye have not always.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

12:8For the poor ye have always with you; but me ye have not always.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

12:8For the poor ye have always with you; but me ye have not always.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

12:8for the poor ye have always with yourselves, and me ye have not always.'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

12:8For the poor always you have with you; but me you have not always.