3And 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.
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What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him? …
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments,
Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? …
Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-3)Here the apostle shows what more excellent way he meant, or had in view, in the close of the former chapter, namely, charity , or, as it is commonly elsewhere rendered, love — agape : not what is meant by charity in our common use of the word, which most men understand of alms-giving, but love in its fullest and most extensive meaning, true love to God and man, a benevolent disposition of mind tow…
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