1 Corinthians 13:3
And if I distribute all my goods in order to feed the poor, and if I hand over my body to be burned, yet not have charity, it offers me nothing.
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In Context
4Charity is patient, is kind. Charity does not envy, does not act wrongly, is not inflated.
Cross References
Jeremiah 7:8Behold, you trust in false words, which will not benefit you,
Matthew 6:1“Pay attention, lest you perform your justice before men, in order to be seen by them; otherwise you shall not have a reward with your Father, who is in heaven.
Matthew 23:5Truly, they do all their works so that they may be seen by men. For they enlarge their phylacteries and glorify their hems.
Luke 18:28And Peter said, “Behold, we have left everything, and we have followed you.”
Luke 21:3And he said: “Truly, I say to you, that this poor widow has put in more than all the others.
John 12:43For they loved the glory of men more than the glory of God.
Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 13:2-4
On Spiritual Gifts. ( a. d. 57.) 1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. 2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. 3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. Here the apostle shows… Read the whole commentary →