11 For there will never cease to be poor people in the land;(A) that is why I am commanding you, ‘Open your hand willingly to your poor and needy brother in your land.’

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11 There will always be poor people(A) in the land. Therefore I command you to be openhanded toward your fellow Israelites who are poor and needy in your land.(B)

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11 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.

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For you always have the poor with you,(A) but you do not always have me.”

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You will always have the poor among you,[a](A) but you will not always have me.”

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Footnotes

  1. John 12:8 See Deut. 15:11.

For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always.

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