| Gavin Carlyle - 1866 - 204 pàgines
...the sake of personal merit or adulation of men, or hope of reward in heaven — " Though I give all my goods to feed the poor, and have not charity, it profiteth nothing ;" and again indicating that the crown of martyrdom hath but a dim lustre if that martyrdom... | |
| 1875 - 652 pàgines
...the giving of aid to the needy, is evident from the words of the third verse : " Though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor . . . and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing." Even martyrdom itself is said to be no more " profitable " without "love." The zealot dying... | |
| Francis William Pitt Greenwood, F. W. P. (Francis William Pit Greenwood - 1868 - 410 pàgines
...love. Paul settles this matter with a final and crowning authority when he says, Though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. The apostle here settles it that one may give his whole time and his whole property in charity... | |
| John Mason Neale - 1868 - 334 pàgines
...because without love we cannot please GOD : as he tells us in another place, " And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing." But, directly after love, he sets joy. Now we may be very sure that the more excellent a... | |
| John Mason Neale - 1869 - 348 pàgines
...with you ; — if when, what you do not like, you flur over ? S. Paul gives us a rule about that : " Though I beftow all my goods to feed the poor, and have not charity, I am nothing." Is that according to all the defire of the King's foul to come down, if any of you fo... | |
| Thomas George Bell - 1869 - 192 pàgines
...indigent." Almsgiving, in the language of Scripture, is righteousness, not charity. Though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing." (1 Cor. xiii. 3.) In Matt, vi., alms in the first verse is, literally, as in the margin,... | |
| 1869 - 634 pàgines
...false faith not justified by care for the poor," and he takes as his text — "And tho' I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing"; which he explains— " Tho' I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and have not true, justifying,... | |
| 1870 - 484 pàgines
...As if works of mercy were of any profit without love, whereas the Apostle says : If I distribute all my goods to feed the poor, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. Loveth any man his neighbour as himself, who loveth not himself? For whoso loveth iniquity... | |
| Olive Logan - 1870 - 708 pàgines
...the cross. Even his stern apostle, Paul, taught charity as the chief of virtues. "Though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor * * * and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. Charity suffereth long, and is kind ; charity thinketh no evil." "And now abideth faith, hope,... | |
| Olive Logan - 1870 - 696 pàgines
...the cross. Even his stern apostle, Paul, taught charity as the chief of virtues. "Though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor * * * and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity thinketh no evil." " And now abideth faith, hope,... | |
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