World English Bible
Mark 14:7
“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.”
Verse in context — Mark 14
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For this might have been sold for more than three hundred denarii, and given to the poor." They grumbled against her.
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But Jesus said, "Leave her alone. Why do you trouble her? She has done a good work for me.
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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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She has done what she could. She has anointed my body beforehand for the burying.
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Most 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.
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