Mat 26:11
For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.
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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.
For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always.
For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always.
I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.
But now I go my way to him that sent me; and none of you asketh me, Whither goest thou?
Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.
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.
For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.
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}.
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.
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:
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.
For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink:
Only {they would} that we should remember the poor; the same which I also was forward to do.
But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels {of compassion} from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?
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.
For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always.
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:
For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always.
{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. {condescend...: or, be contented with mean things}
And Joanna the wife of Chuza Herod's steward, and Susanna, and many others, which ministered unto him of their substance.
But rather give alms of such things as ye have; and, behold, all things are clean unto you. {of...: or, as you are able}
Then Peter arose and went with them. When he was come, they brought him into the upper chamber: and all the widows stood by him weeping, and shewing the coats and garments which Dorcas made, while she was with them.
For it hath pleased them of Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor saints which are at Jerusalem.
And they rose up early in the morning, and gat them up into the top of the mountain, saying, Lo, we {be here}, and will go up unto the place which the LORD hath promised: for we have sinned.