...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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,...

...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,...

...is pleasing to Him : see Matthew vi. With regard to almsgiving, St. Paul says, "Though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing." 1 Cor. xiii. 3. Almsgiving, to a generous heart, is one of the easiest works possible ; to...

...that nothing that we should think startling doctrine could have been preached—'Though I give all my goods to feed the poor, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.' 'O hard sayings! who can hear them ?' writes Wesley, after the quotation, and the exclamation...

...none of us do this, how plain it is that ' by grace we are saved, through faith ' ! ' If I give all my goods to feed the poor, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.' " Then came the other thought, — that, with faith in Christ, and reconciliation to God,...