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.
KJV
Greek original
Louis Segond 1910
Et quand je distribuerais tous mes biens pour la nourriture des pauvres, quand je livrerais même mon corps pour être brûlé, si je n'ai pas la charité, cela ne me sert de rien.
KJV
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.
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
d works do not suffice for entrance into life, except they be done from charity: for it is written ( 1 Cor. 13:3 ): "If I should distribute all my goods to feed the poor, and if I should deliver my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing." Therefore the m…
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
ts of patience and fortitude are not meritorious unless a man does them out of charity, according to 1 Cor. 13:3 : "If I should deliver my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing." Whether a man may merit for himself the first grace? Objection 1: It would…
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
who lack charity. Therefore true virtue can be without charity. On the contrary, The Apostle says ( 1 Cor. 13:3 ): "If I should distribute all my goods to the poor, and if I should deliver my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing." And yet true virtue i…
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