 | 1882 - 666 pages
...trumpet, as the hypocrites do, that they may have glory of men. Good works should shine, but not blaze. [f I give my body to be burnt, and have not charity, it profits me nothing. The same, I may say, of a sincere aim ; if I obey never so much, and have not a... | |
 | Saint Augustine (of Hippo), Mary Helen Allies - 1886 - 1012 pages
...vainglory, as in this passage : If I should distribute all my goods to the poor, and if I should deliver my body to be burnt, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. This is the nuptial-garment. Ask yourselves if you have it, for if so you may sit confidently at the King's... | |
 | 1888 - 618 pages
...Christ; but since there are many who do this boastfully, not with charity, therefore, " Though I should give my body to be burnt, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.1' ' It was by charity those martyrs, who suffered in time of persecution, did this; but these... | |
 | 1888 - 606 pages
...Christ; but since there are many who do this boastfully, not with charity, therefore, " Though I should n this way, that the disciples were thrown into sorrow over the nothing."1 It was by charity those martyrs, who suffered in time of persecution, did this; but these... | |
 | Philip Schaff, Henry Wace - 1895 - 460 pages
...mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor and though I give my body to be burnt and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing."* Not that each of the points enumerated could be performed without love, but that the Holy... | |
 | Albert Frederick Pollard - 1904 - 484 pages
...He was restored to his professorship under Mary, and preached at Latimer and Ridley's martyrdom from the text, " If I give my body to be burnt, and have not charity, it profiteth nothing." The fact suggests that Smith himself had little charity ; neither did he give his body to... | |
 | Leslie Stephen, Sir Sidney Lee - 1909 - 1360 pages
...those prelates were about to be burnt he preached a sermon before a large auditory near Balliol College on the text, ' If I give my body to be burnt, and have no charity, it profiteth nothing.' After the accession of Elizabeth he lost ail his preferments, and... | |
 | 1910 - 642 pages
...men and angels . . . though I have the gift of prophecy . . . though I have all faith . . . though I give my body to be burnt, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing,' and in ch. ix. 26, 27 ' I keep under my body and bring it into subjection, lest having preached... | |
 | Saint Augustine (Bishop of Hippo.) - 1873 - 504 pages
...but since there are many who do this boastfully, not •with charity, therefore, " Though I should give my body to be burnt, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing." s It was by charity those martyrs, who suffered in time of persecution, did this ; but these... | |
 | 1980 - 452 pages
...mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor and though I give my body to be burnt and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing." ' Not that each of the points enumerated could be performed without love, but that the Holy... | |
| |
And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor and though I give my body to be burnt and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing... 
