Bible Encyclopedia: Vanity: Almsgiving Without Love Is

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1 Cor. xii. 27
... For therefore also hath almsgiving been enacted by God: since ... outward acts of
beneficence are of no avail without love. ... He may do all this from vanity, or from ...
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Homilies on Galatians and Ephesians.
... Almsgiving, duty of, [10]45; the danger of omitting the duty ... Paul, [262]60; will
not save without works, [263]67 ... calling a mystery, [292]80; the vanity of their ...
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On Charity
... to outward actions, and to mean little more than almsgiving! ... whether Popish or
Protestant, Lutheran or Reformed; without these, is lighter than vanity itself ...
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Sermons on Selected Lessons of the Gospels.
... 1267]317; general reception of, [1268]246 sq., [1269]376; to be preached by love,
not "by occasion," [1270]425; to be received for Itself, without regard to ...
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Homilies on Philippians, Colossians, and Thessalonians.
... Almsgiving, to ministers a gain to the giver, [726]187 ... Heretics, do great and good
works, but without a reward ... History, proves vanity of earthly things, [1683]379 ...
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Homilies on the Epistles to Timothy, Titus, and Philemon.
... Garments, vanity of worldly, [3366]414 ... Gold, good for almsgiving, [3412]432; to be
used in loosing ... a moment, [3420]ib.; spiritual, not gained without labor and ...
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1 Timothy ii. 10-Aug
... pure hands, "holy hands": hands employed in almsgiving are holy ... says, I will that
women approach God without wrath and ... there not in all this the vanity of dress ...
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Colossians iii. 16, 17
... I have not sat in the council of vanity"; (Psalm 26 ... 144:15, Sept.) That we do not
sin without notice, but ... shall come out as of fatness." That almsgiving is good ...
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Homilies on the Gospel of John.
... to practice or not virginity, but required almsgiving, [498]ib ... the Father, ib.; proof
of His love for His disciples, ib.; His miracles without parallel, [510 ...
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In the Beginning God Made the Heaven and the Earth.
... and far-famed astronomy, this laborious vanity, if those who ... of God is the beginning
of almsgiving, and the ... was not conceived by chance and without reason, but ...
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1 Corinthians 13:3
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 profits me nothing.
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