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.


In Context

4 But there were some who were indignant among themselves, saying, |Why has this ointment been wasted?

5 For this might have been sold for more than three hundred denarii, and given to the poor.| They grumbled against her.

6 But Jesus said, |Leave her alone. Why do you trouble her? She has done a good work for me.

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.

8 She has done what she could. She has anointed my body beforehand for the burying.

9 Most certainly I tell you, wherever this Good News may be preached throughout the whole world, that which this woman has done will also be spoken of for a memorial 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 New International Version of the Holy Bible

14:7The poor you will always have with you, and you can help them any time you want. But you will not always have me.

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 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.