Matthew 26:11
Good News Translation
You will always have poor people with you, but you will not always have me.

New Revised Standard Version
For you always have the poor with you, but you will not always have me.

Contemporary English Version
You will always have the poor with you, but you won't always have me.

New American Bible
The poor you will always have with you; but you will not always have me.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For the poor you have always with you: but me you have not always.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For the poor you have always with you: but me you have not always.

ye have.

Matthew 25:34-40,42-45 Then shall the king say to them that shall be on his right hand: Come, ye blessed of my Father, possess you the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. . . .

Deuteronomy 15:11 There will not be wanting poor in the land of thy habitation: therefore I command thee to open thy hand to thy needy and poor brother, that liveth in the land.

Mark 14:7 For the poor you have always with you: and whensoever you will, you may do them good: but me you have not always.

John 12:8 For the poor you have always with you: but me you have not always.

Galatians 2:10 Only that we should be mindful of the poor: which same thing also I was careful to do.

1 John 3:17 He that hath the substance of this world and shall see his brother in need and shall shut up his bowels from him: how doth the charity of God abide in him?

but.

Matthew 18:20 For where there are two or three gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.

Matthew 28:20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you. And behold I am with you all days, even to the consummation of the world.

John 13:33 Little children, yet a little while I am with you. You shall seek me. And as I said to the Jews: Whither I go you cannot come; so I say to you now.

John 14:19 Yet a little while and the world seeth me no more. But you see me: because I live, and you shall live.

John 16:5,28 But I told you not these things from the beginning, because I was with you. And now I go to him that sent me, and none of you asketh me: Whither goest thou? . . .

John 17:11 And now I am not in the world, and these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep them in thy name whom thou hast given me: that they may be one, as we also are.

Acts 3:21 Whom heaven indeed must receive, until the times of the restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of his holy prophets, from the beginning of the world.

Context
Jesus Anointed at Bethany
10And Jesus knowing it, said to them: Why do you trouble this woman? For she hath wrought a good work upon me. 11For the poor you have always with you: but me you have not always. 12For she in pouring this ointment on my body hath done it for my burial.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 15:11
There will not be wanting poor in the land of thy habitation: therefore I command thee to open thy hand to thy needy and poor brother, that liveth in the land.

Matthew 26:10
And Jesus knowing it, said to them: Why do you trouble this woman? For she hath wrought a good work upon me.

Mark 14:7
For the poor you have always with you: and whensoever you will, you may do them good: but me you have not always.

John 12:8
For the poor you have always with you: but me you have not always.

Matthew 26:10
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