 | Fanny Vincent Steele HATCHARD - 1875 - 222 páginas
...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... | |
 | Hugh Reginald Haweis - 1876 - 414 páginas
...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... | |
 | Edmund Mortlock - 1876 - 422 páginas
...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... | |
 | Saint John Henry Newman - 1878 - 612 páginas
...character, as it is a special characteristic of every true Christian ; yet he says, " Though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing." Self-denying almsgiving is no necessary evidence of love. Once more. He, if any man, had... | |
 | Solomon Caesar Malan - 1881 - 136 páginas
...fruits of righteousness, if given from the heart and for the love of God. For, ' though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor... and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing'. (1 Cor. xiii, 3.) So that AV ' Take heed that you do not your alms before men' is right,... | |
 | 1881 - 882 páginas
...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,"... | |
 | Edward Harold Browne - 1882 - 916 páginas
...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,... | |
 | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - 1882 - 630 páginas
...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 páginas
...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... | |
 | Joseph Zachary Tyler - 1883 - 366 páginas
...they sprang that we can see that ths divine judgment in these cases is equitable. " Though I give all my goods to feed the poor, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. ' ' See how the motive is uncovered and how sentence is pronounced in view of that. Pride... | |
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And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. 
