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 good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him?
• John 15:13Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
• Matt 23:5But all their works they do to be seen by men. They make their phylacteries broad, enlarge the fringes of their garments,
• Matt 6:1–4“Be careful that you don’t do your charitable giving before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.
• Matt 7:22–23Many will tell me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, didn’t we prophesy in your name, in your name cast out demons, and in your name do many mighty works?’
• Luke 18:28Peter said, “Look, we have left everything, and followed you.”
• Gal 5:26Let’s not become conceited, provoking one another, and envying one another.
• 1 Tim 4:8For bodily exercise has some value, but godliness has value in all things, having the promise of the life which is now, and of that which is to come.
• Heb 13:9Don’t be carried away by various and strange teachings, for it is good that the heart be established by grace, not by food, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.
• John 12:43for they loved men’s praise more than God’s praise.
• Phil 1:20–21according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I will in no way be disappointed, but with all boldness, as always, now also Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life, or by death.
• Luke 18:22When Jesus heard these things, he said to him, “You still lack one thing. Sell all that you have, and distribute it to the poor. You will have treasure in heaven. Come, follow me.”
• John 6:63It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.
• Jer 7:8Behold, you trust in lying words, that can’t profit.
• John 13:37Peter said to him, “Lord, why can’t I follow you now? I will lay down my life for you.”
• Dan 3:16–28Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego answered the king, Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter.
• Luke 19:8Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, “Behold, Lord, half of my goods I give to the poor. If I have wrongfully exacted anything of anyone, I restore four times as much.”
• Acts 21:13Then Paul answered, “What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.”
• Isa 57:12I will declare your righteousness; and as for your works, they will not benefit you.
• Phil 1:15–18Some indeed preach Christ even out of envy and strife, and some also out of good will.
• Phil 2:3doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;
• Luke 21:3–4He said, “Truly I tell you, this poor widow put in more than all of them,

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