 | Favell Lee Mortimer - Apostles - 1874 - 394 pages
...or love in his heart ; then his gifts would be worthless, for it is written, ' Though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.' But Barnabas was full of love in his heart. How much Saul must have loved him for bringing... | |
 | Fanny Vincent Steele HATCHARD - 1875 - 222 pages
...grace, St. Paul tells us that all our works are of no value in God's sight ; ' Though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.'* God does not look so much upon what we give to Him, as upon what we keep ourselves. Our... | |
 | Edmund Mortlock - 1876 - 422 pages
...hangs on our motive. To this purport is the strong sentence of the Apostle : ' Though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing ;M if my bounty springs not from genuine sympathy, it helpeth not to the growth of that charity... | |
 | Hugh Reginald Haweis - 1876 - 414 pages
...in that great thirteenth chapter of First Corinthians, on charity, remarks : " Though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing ; " and he might have added, " nor any one else either" for indeed alms given without thoughtful... | |
 | Frank Nutcombe Oxenham - Future punishment - 1881 - 230 pages
...others are not the only conditions of salvation ; alms may be quite in vain, eg " Though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, . . . and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing ; " $ and it is impossible to suppose that a man who persisted in all sorts of wickedness would... | |
 | 1881 - 882 pages
...salvation. And this, although it is expressly said by St. Paul (1 Cor. xiii. 3), " Though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and have not charity, it profiteth nothing." The sentence in St. Peter is a quotation from Proverbs x. 12 : " Love covcreth all sins,"... | |
 | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - Bible - 1882 - 630 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... | |
 | Precious truths - 1882 - 112 pages
...toils, And raise you to My heavenly home. THE CHARITY WHICH GOD REQUIRES. "And though l bestow all my goods to feed the poor, . , . and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing." —7 Cor. xlli. 3. BY charity we are to understand true love and kindness of heart. A man... | |
 | Edward Harold Browne - 1882 - 916 pages
...have placed perfection in selling all things, since in I Cor. xiii. 3 , we read ' though I give all my goods to feed the poor .... and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.' Calvin also ob• • iv,.-i, that the young man could not really have kept all the commandments,... | |
 | Charity Organization Society of the City of New York - Friendly visiting - 1883 - 112 pages
...redeemed, restored, both in word and in deed, to its original meaning of love. " And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, . . . and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing." says St. Paul. How far have we wandered from that early teaching, when we use the words "... | |
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And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. 
