For you always have the poor with you, but you will not always have me.
For there will never cease to be poor in the land. Therefore I command you, ‘You shall open wide your hand to your brother, to the needy and to the poor, in your land.’
For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you want, you can do good for them. But you will not always have me.
For the poor you always have with you, but you do not always have me.”
I came from the Father and have come into the world, and now I am leaving the world and going to the Father.”
But now I am going to him who sent me, and none of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’
Yet a little while and the world will see me no more, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live.
Little children, yet a little while I am with you. You will seek me, and just as I said to the Jews, so now I also say to you, ‘Where I am going you cannot come.’
whom heaven must receive until the time for restoring all the things about which God spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets long ago.
And I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are one.
teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
For I was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you gave me no drink, I was a stranger and you did not welcome me, naked and you did not clothe me, sick and in prison and you did not visit me.’ Then they also will answer, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to you?’ Then he will answer them, saying, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to me.’
Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.’ Then the righteous will answer him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink? And when did we see you a stranger and welcome you, or naked and clothe you?
For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them.”
But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him?
Only, they asked us to remember the poor, the very thing I was eager to do.
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