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Mark 14:7

World English Bible

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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Mark 14:7 in other translations

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

Mark 14:7 · American Standard Version

Mark 14:7 in context

  1. 5For this might have been sold for more than three hundred denarii, and given to the poor.” So they grumbled against her.
  2. 6But Jesus said, “Leave her alone. Why do you trouble her? She has done a good work for me.
  3. 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.
  4. 8She has done what she could. She has anointed my body beforehand for the burying.
  5. 9Most 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.”