1 Corinthians 13:3

Giving away all one's goods or even one's body without love profits nothing. Sacrifice itself is empty if love does not move it.

Cross-references · 22

• Jas 2:14–17What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him?
• John 15:13Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
• Matt 23:5But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments,
• Matt 6:1–4Take 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.
• Matt 7:22–23Many 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?
• Luke 18:28Then Peter said, Lo, we have left all, and followed thee.
• Gal 5:26Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.
• 1 Tim 4:8For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.
• Heb 13:9Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.
• John 12:43For they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.
• Phil 1:20–21According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death.
• Luke 18:22Now when Jesus heard these things, he said unto him, Yet lackest thou one thing: sell all that thou hast, and distribute unto the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me.
• John 6:63It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
• Jer 7:8Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.
• John 13:37Peter said unto him, Lord, why cannot I follow thee now? I will lay down my life for thy sake.
• Dan 3:16–28Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we are not careful to answer thee in this matter.
• Luke 19:8And Zacchaeus stood, and said unto the Lord; Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have taken any thing from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold.
• Acts 21:13Then Paul answered, What mean ye to weep and to break mine heart? for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.
• Isa 57:12I will declare thy righteousness, and thy works; for they shall not profit thee.
• Phil 1:15–18Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some also of good will:
• Phil 2:3Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
• Luke 21:3–4And he said, Of a truth I say unto you, that this poor widow hath cast in more than they all:

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