1 CORINTHIANS 13:3 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 1
“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.”
If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing — even the radical self-surrender of almsgiving (psōmizō, to feed by morsels) and martyrdom (paradidōmi, to hand over the body to burning) profit nothing if motivation is loveless; this cuts to the heart: action without love is mere performance, hollow display.
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