1 Corinthians 13:3 Cross References - Moffatt

³ I may distribute all I possess in charity, I may give up my body to be burnt, but if I have no love, I make nothing of it.

¹ Take care not to practise your charity before men in order to be noticed; otherwise you get no reward from your Father in heaven. No, ² When you give alms, make no flourish of trumpets like the hypocrites in the synagogues and the streets, so as to win applause from men; I tell you truly, they do get their reward. ³ When you give alms, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, ⁴ so as to keep your alms secret; then your Father who sees what is secret will reward you openly.

²² Many will say to me at that Day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name? did we not cast out daemons in your name? did we not perform many miracles in your name?' ²³ Then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you; depart from my presence, you workers of iniquity.'

⁵ Besides, all they do is done to catch the notice of men; they make their phylacteries broad, they wear large tassels,

²² When Jesus heard this he said to him, "You lack one thing more; sell all you have, distribute the money among the poor and you will have treasure in heaven; then come and follow me."

²⁸ Peter said, "Well, we have left our homes and followed you!"

⁸ So Zacchaeus stopped and said to the Lord, "I will give the half of all I have, Lord, to the poor, and if I have cheated anybody I will give him back four times as much."

³ He said, "I tell you plainly, this poor widow has put in more than them all; ⁴ for these people all contributed out of their surplus, but she has given out of her neediness all her living."

⁶³ What gives life is the Spirit: flesh is of no avail at all. The words I have uttered to you are spirit and life.

⁴³ they preferred the approval of men to the approval of God.

³⁷ "Lord," said Peter, "why cannot I follow you just now? I will lay down my life for you."

¹³ To lay life down for his friends, man has no greater love than that.

¹³ Then Paul replied, "What do you mean by weeping and disheartening me? I am ready not only to be bound but also to die at Jerusalem for the sake of the Lord Jesus."

²⁶ let us have no vanity, no provoking, no envy of one another.

¹⁵ Some of them, it is true, are actually preaching Christ from envy and rivalry, others from goodwill; ¹⁶ the latter do it from love to me, knowing that I am set here to defend the gospel, ¹⁷ but the former proclaim Christ for their own ends, with mixed motives, intending to annoy me as I lie in prison. ¹⁸ What does it matter? Anyhow, for ulterior ends or honestly, Christ is being proclaimed, and I rejoice over that; yes and I will rejoice over it.

²⁰ my eager desire and hope being that I may never feel ashamed but that now as ever I may do honour to Christ in my own person by fearless courage. Whether that means life or death, no matter! ²¹ As life means Christ to me, so death means gain.

³ never acting for private ends or from vanity, but humbly considering each other the better man,

⁸ The training of the body is of small service, but religion is of service in all directions; it contains the promise of life both for the present and for the future.

⁹ Never let yourselves be carried away with a variety of novel doctrines; for the right thing is to have one's heart strengthened by grace, not by the eating of food — that has never been any use to those who have had recourse to it.

¹⁴ My brothers, what is the use of anyone declaring he has faith, if he has no deeds to show? Can his faith save him? ¹⁵ Suppose some brother or sister is ill-clad and short of daily food; ¹⁶ if any of you says to them, "Depart in peace! Get warm, get food," without supplying their bodily needs, what use is that? ¹⁷ So faith, unless it has deeds, is dead in itself.