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Matthew 26:11

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For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.
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  1. Deuteronomy 15:11Rank 1 from verse 11
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    11For 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.

  2. Mark 14:7Rank 2 from verse 11
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    7For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always.

  3. John 12:8Rank 3 from verse 11
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    8For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always.

  4. John 16:28Rank 4 from verse 11
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    28I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.

  5. John 13:33Rank 5 from verse 11
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    33Little children, yet a little while I am with you. Ye shall seek me: and as I said unto the Jews, Whither I go, ye cannot come; so now I say to you.

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Matthew 26:11

COMBINED MEANING

for

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1. In behalf of or in the place of. 2. With respect to, concerning, or toward. 3. Because of or on account of. 4. During or throughout. 5. In order to obtain or reach. 6. As a conjunction, because or seeing that.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

ye

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The second-person plural subject pronoun, referring to the persons being addressed as those who are, do, or receive the stated predicate.

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you

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The second-person plural pronoun referring to those being addressed.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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but

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Sense 1: However; marking contrast or qualification. Sense 2: Except or unless; excluding all others or alternatives. Sense 3: Only; no more than what follows.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828

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10When Jesus understood it, he said unto them, Why trouble ye the woman? for she hath wrought a good work upon me.

11For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.

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12For in that she hath poured this ointment on my body, she did it for my burial.

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