I will declare your righteousness; and as for your works, they shall not profit you.
1 Corinthians 13:3 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don't have love, it profits me nothing. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Even if I dole out all that I have [to the poor in providing] food, and if I surrender my body to be burned or in order that I may glory, but have not love (God's love in me), I gain nothing. American Standard Version (1901) And if I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profiteth me nothing. Common English Bible If I give away everything that I have and hand over my own body to feel good about what I’ve done but I don’t have love, I receive no benefit whatsoever. Catholic Public Domain Version And if I distribute all my goods in order to feed the poor, and if I hand over my body to be burned, yet not have charity, it offers me nothing. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And 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. |
I will declare your righteousness; and as for your works, they shall not profit you.
But all their works they do to be seen by men. They make their tefillin broad, enlarge the tzitziyot of their garments,
When Yeshua 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.*
Zakkai 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.*
Kefa said to him, *Lord, why can't I follow you now? I will lay down my life for you.*
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.
Then Sha'ul answered, *What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die at Yerushalayim for the name of the Lord Yeshua.*
Let's not become conceited, provoking one another, and envying one another.
doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;
For 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.
Don'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.