 | John Cumming - 1861 - 540 pàgines
...martyrs, if not martyrs, and yet never have been Christians. What does Paul say 1 " Though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth me nothing." What makes a martyr? Not the fire in which he is consumed, but the fire of love within, that leads... | |
 | 1863 - 876 pàgines
...have not love, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth me nothing" (1 Cor. xiii. 1-3.) But the Apostle insists on undissembled love. " Let love be without dissimulation"... | |
 | 1861 - 928 pàgines
...not renounce Simeon Stylites. " Though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth me nothing." l It also appears, as to the method of self-denial, that sin is not torn oft by force, but drops oft'... | |
 | L. L. T. - 1866 - 298 pàgines
...Stranger still is the assertion of the apostle, which comes in the last place : " Although I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth me nothing." Although, rather than deny the faith, rather than commit a known sin, or omit a known duty, I voluntarily... | |
 | Hodder and Stoughton - 1868 - 714 pàgines
...for several reasons retaining the reading to which we have been long accustomed, " though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth me nothing." Whether it be the thought the apostle wished to express or not, most certainly it is true. The apostle... | |
 | 1874 - 564 pàgines
...the noblest thing in their passion, since the Apostle has said, i Cor. xiii. 3. " Though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth me nothing ;" because it is possible to obey GOD'S commandments through mere servile dread, without any true zeal... | |
 | Robert Baker Girdlestone - 1869 - 320 pàgines
...And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and 74 LOVE THE TEST OF FAITH. though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth me nothing." (1 Cor. xiii. 1 — 3.) "Putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour, for we are members... | |
 | World - 1870 - 120 pàgines
...love, ayairriv), I am nothing ; and though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth me nothing" (1 Cor. xiii. 2, 3). "All faith "does not work "by love" nor, indeed, is it able to form any idea of... | |
 | 1909 - 1106 pàgines
...Americans and Porto Ricans ; and he answered : " Saint Paul's Epistle to the Corinthians. ' If I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth me nothing.' " This, then, is our " vaunted democracy." We Americans have not yet learned the art of self-government.... | |
 | Henry Ward Beecher - 1870 - 698 pàgines
...have not love, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth me nothing." " Love never faileth ; but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail ; whether there be tongues,... | |
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And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth me nothing. 
