 | Paul (st.) - 1858 - 788 pages
...which the Apostle especially contrasts his own employment of the word. When he says, " though I give my goods to feed the poor, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing," it is as though he had foreseen the corruption of his own language, and had said, " though... | |
 | Christian year - 1858 - 442 pages
...Christian charity ; but it is by no means the whole of it, for the Apostle says, " Though I give all my goods to feed the poor, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing." " Charity," or as it might be translated, Love, is that mild, but firm and active love to... | |
 | George de la Poer Beresford - 1858 - 308 pages
...charity, as Saint Paul teaches us, is the giving of alms. " Though," says the Apostle, " I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. Charity suffereth long, and is kind ; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself; is... | |
 | Hannah Ransome Geldart - Christian life - 1859 - 388 pages
...hard condition, 'Tis only — look and live. NEWTOJf. CHARITY— WHAT IT IS NOT. "Though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor * * * and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing." — 1 Cor. xiii. 3. RICH man is sitting by his blazing fire on Christmas eve. He has a beautiful... | |
 | Lorenzo Dow, Peggy Dow - Dow, Lorenzo, 1777-1834 - 1859 - 734 pages
...more fhan giving away a few old worn out clothes to a beggar. For thus saith Paul, " Though I give all my goods to feed the poor, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing." " And though a man had all knowledge and all faith, so as to remove mountains, and talk like... | |
 | 1859 - 1002 pages
...was impossible for him to be so, is plain from other portions of God's Word, " Though I bestow nil my goods to feed the poor . . . and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing," 1st Cor. xiii. 3. The liberal man, therefore, even whea his liberality is manifested to the... | |
 | Lorenzo Dow - 1859 - 530 pages
...more than giving away a few old worn out clothes to a beggar. For thus saith Paul: " Though I give all my goods to feed the poor, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing." "And though a man had all knowledge and all faith ; so as to remove mountains, and talk like... | |
 | Thomas Wilson - Sermons, English - 1860 - 666 pages
...children of the same heavenly Father, and members of the same body. 1 Cor. xiii. 3. Though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. If external acts of charity do not proceed from charity, that is, from a love of God, and... | |
 | Church year sermons - 1860 - 902 pages
...Christian charity ; but it is by no means the whole of it, for the Apostle says, " Though I give all my goods to feed the poor, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing." " Charity," or as it might be translated, Love, is that mild, but firm and active love to... | |
 | Richard Whately - Prayer - 1860 - 212 pages
...as we ought. In all duties indeed, a right state of the mind is essential ; for ' though I give all my goods to feed the poor, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.' (i Cor. xiii.) But still, to relieve the distressed is a part of Charity ; and we can know... | |
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And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. 
