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Mark 14:7

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

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Mark 14:7 in other translations

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 · World English Bible

Mark 14:7 in context

  1. 5For this ointment might have been sold for above three hundred shillings, and given to the poor. And they murmured against her.
  2. 6But Jesus said, Let her alone; why trouble ye her? she hath wrought a good work on me.
  3. 7For ye have the poor always with you, and whensoever ye will ye can do them good: but me ye have not always.
  4. 8She hath done what she could; she hath anointed my body beforehand for the burying.
  5. 9And verily I say unto you, Wheresoever the gospel shall be preached throughout the whole world, that also which this woman hath done shall be spoken of for a memorial of her.