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Mark 14:7
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.
Mark 14:7 · New Heart English Bible
Mark 14:7 in other translations
For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always.
The poor you will always have with you, and you can help them whenever you want. But you will not always have Me.
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.
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In context
4 But there were some who were indignant among themselves, "Why has this ointment been wasted?
5 For this ointment 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 Truly 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."
10 Judas Iscariot, who was one of the twelve, went away to the chief priests, that he might deliver him to them.
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