 | Henry William SULIVAN - 1853 - 294 pages
...fact St. Paul has guarded us against this mistake. For you remember, he says, " Though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing." So that a man might be full of almsgiving without the spirit of charity. No, brethren, the... | |
 | John Cumming - 1854 - 388 pages
...contradict the express assertion, "By deeds of law no flesh shall be justified," and "though I give all my goods to feed the poor, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing." Rom. iii. 20 ; 1 Cor. xiii. 3. Its obvious meaning is, part with the object that stands between... | |
 | John Cumming - 1854 - 396 pages
...contradict the express assertion, "By deeds of law no flesh shall be justified," and "though I give all my goods to feed the poor, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing." Rom. iii. 20 ; 1 Cor. xiii. 3. Its obvious meaning is, part with the object that stands between... | |
 | John Mitchell - Christian biography - 1855 - 280 pages
...but approve and accept." But without faith it is impossible to please God. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. He had not faith — did not profess to have ; nor that charity which the apostle makes essential... | |
 | Sunday - 1856 - 556 pages
...its manifestation, and that the one is entirely useless without the other : — " Though I give all my goods to feed the poor, and have not Charity, it profiteth me nothing." In the beginning of the Gospel, such was the enmity of the Jews especially to the name of... | |
 | Christian - Church attendance - 1856 - 558 pages
...its manifestation, and that the one is entirely useless without the other : — " Though I give all my goods to feed the poor, and have not Charity, it profiteth me nothing." In the beginning of the Gospel, such was the enmity of the Jews especially to the name of... | |
 | Thomas Gouge - 1856 - 230 pages
...is not true and sound, — this much the apostle implieth under this phrase : " Though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing." (1 Cor. xiii. 3.) By charity he meaneth a free giving of that which is given, merely out... | |
 | Thomas Wilson - Devotional exercises - 1857 - 324 pages
...to excuse what is evil in his brethren, as far as truth will suffer him. ALMS. " Though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing." — 1 Cor. xiii. 3. If external acts of charity do not proceed from charity, that is, from... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
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And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. 
