1 Corinthians 13:3

KJV1611 – Modern English

And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profits me nothing.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Καὶ ἐὰν ψωμίσω πάντα τὰ ὑπάρχοντά μου, καὶ ἐὰν παραδῶ τὸ σῶμά μου ἵνα καυθήσωμαι, ἀγάπην δὲ μὴ ἔχω, οὐδὲν ὠφελοῦμαι.

Transliteration

And if I psōmisō all the hyparchonta of me, and if I paradō the sōma of me so that I may be kauthēsōmai, agapēn but not echō, nothing I am ōpheloumai.

Grammar Details

• *Kai*: conjunction - and/also
• *ean*: conditional particle - if
• *psōmisō*: aorist, active, subjunctive, 1st person singular - I feed/dole out food
• *panta*: accusative, neuter, plural - all
• *hyparchonta*: accusative, neuter, plural, participle - belongings/possessions/goods
• *mou*: genitive, 1st person singular pronoun - of me/my
• *paradō*: aorist, active, subjunctive, 1st person singular - I deliver up/hand over
• *sōma*: accusative, neuter, singular - body
• *hina*: conjunction - so that/in order that
• *kauthēsōmai*: future, passive, subjunctive, 1st person singular - I may be burned
• *agapēn*: accusative, feminine, singular - love
• *de*: postpositive conjunction - but/and
• *mē*: negative particle - not
• *echō*: present, active, subjunctive, 1st person singular - I have/possess
• *ouden*: accusative, neuter, singular - nothing
• *ōpheloumai*: present, passive, indicative, 1st person singular - I am profited/benefited

Word Meanings

• *psōmisō*: feed/give food to/distribute food
• *hyparchonta*: possessions/goods/property/belongings
• *paradō*: deliver up/hand over/surrender
• *sōma*: body/physical form
• *kauthēsōmai*: I may be burned/consumed by fire
• *ōpheloumai*: I am profited/benefited/advantaged

Other Translations

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  If I give everything I have to the poor and surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love, I gain nothing.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  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.

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  And{G2532} if{G1437} I bestow{G5595} all{G3956} my{G3450} goods{G5224} to feed{G5595} [the poor], and{G2532} if{G1437} I give{G3860} my{G3450} body{G4983} to{G2443} be burned,{G2545} but{G1161} have{G2192} not{G3361} love,{G26} it profiteth{G5623} me nothing.{G3762}

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  And{G2532} though{G1437} I bestow{G5595} all{G3956} my{G3450} goods{G5224}{(G5723)} to feed{G5595}{(G5661)} the poor, and{G2532} though{G1437} I give{G3860}{(G5632)} my{G3450} body{G4983} to{G2443} be burned{G2545}{(G5703)}, and{G1161} have{G2192}{(G5725)} not{G3361} charity{G26}, it profiteth me{G5623}{(G5743)} nothing{G3762}.

• Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

  And though I bestowed all my gooddes to fede ye poore and though I gave my body even that I burned and yet had no love it profeteth me nothinge.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  And though I bestowed all my goodes to fede ye poore, and though I gaue my body euen that I burned, and yet haue not loue, it profiteth me nothinge.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  And though I feede the poore with all my goods, and though I giue my body, that I be burned, and haue not loue, it profiteth me nothing.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  And though I bestowe all my goodes to feede the poore, and though I geue my body that I burned, and haue not loue, it profiteth me nothyng.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  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.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  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.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  and if I give away to feed others all my goods, and if I give up my body that I may be burned, and have not love, I am profited 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.

• 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.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  And if I give all my goods to the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it is of no profit to me.

• World English Bible (2000)

  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.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  If I give away everything I own, and if I give over my body in order to boast, but do not have love, I receive no benefit.

Referenced Verses

• Jas 2:14-17 : 14 What does it profit, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can faith save him? 15 If a brother or sister is naked and lacks daily food, 16 and one of you says to them, Depart in peace, be warmed and filled, but you do not give them the things needed for the body, what does it profit? 17 Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.
• Heb 13:9 : 9 Do not be carried about with various and strange doctrines. For it is good that the heart be established by grace, not with foods which have not profited those who have been occupied with them.
• Jer 7:8 : 8 Behold, you trust in deceptive words that cannot profit.
• Dan 3:16-28 : 16 Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego answered the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we do not need to defend ourselves in this matter. 17 If that is the case, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and He will deliver us from your hand, O king. 18 But if not, let it be known to you, O king, that we do not serve your gods, nor will we worship the golden image which you have set up. 19 Then Nebuchadnezzar was full of fury, and the expression on his face changed towards Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego; he spoke and commanded that they heat the furnace seven times more than it was usually heated. 20 And he commanded the most mighty men in his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, and to cast them into the burning fiery furnace. 21 Then these men were bound in their coats, their trousers, their turbans, and their other garments, and were cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace. 22 Therefore, because the king's command was urgent and the furnace exceedingly hot, the flame of the fire killed those men who took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. 23 And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, fell down bound into the midst of the burning fiery furnace. 24 Then King Nebuchadnezzar was astonished, and rose in haste and spoke, saying to his counselors, Did we not cast three men bound into the midst of the fire? They answered and said to the king, True, O king. 25 He answered and said, Look, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they are not hurt; and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God. 26 Then Nebuchadnezzar went near the mouth of the burning fiery furnace and spoke, saying, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, servants of the Most High God, come out, and come here. Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego came out from the midst of the fire. 27 And the princes, governors, captains, and the king's counselors gathered together, and they saw these men on whose bodies the fire had no power; the hair of their head was not singed, nor were their coats changed, nor had the smell of fire passed on them. 28 Nebuchadnezzar spoke, saying, Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who has sent His angel and delivered His servants who trusted in Him, and they have frustrated the king's word, and yielded their bodies, that they should not serve nor worship any god except their own God.
• Matt 6:1-4 : 1 Be careful not to do your charitable deeds before men, to be seen by them; otherwise, you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. 2 Therefore, when you do your charitable deeds, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory from men. Truly, I say to you, they have their reward. 3 But when you do your charitable deeds, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, 4 that your charitable deeds may be in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.
• Matt 7:22-23 : 22 Many will say to me in that day, 'Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in your name, and cast out devils in your name, and done many wonderful works in your name?' 23 And then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you; depart from me, you who practice iniquity.'
• Matt 23:5 : 5 But all their works they do to be seen by men: they make broad their phylacteries and enlarge the borders of their garments,
• Luke 18:22 : 22 Now when Jesus heard these things, he said to him, Yet you lack one thing: sell all that you have, and distribute to the poor, and you shall have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me.
• Luke 18:28 : 28 Then Peter said, Look, we have left all, and followed you.
• Luke 19:8 : 8 And Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, Behold, Lord, I give half of my goods to the poor; and if I have taken anything from anyone by false accusation, I restore it fourfold.
• Luke 21:3-4 : 3 And he said, Truly I say to you, that this poor widow has cast in more than all of them: 4 For all these have out of their abundance cast into the offerings of God; but she, out of her poverty, has cast in all the living that she had.
• John 6:63 : 63 It is the spirit that gives life; the flesh profits nothing: the words that I speak to you, they are spirit, and they are life.
• John 12:43 : 43 for they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.
• John 13:37 : 37 Peter said to him, Lord, why can I not follow you now? I will lay down my life for your sake.
• John 15:13 : 13 Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
• Acts 21:13 : 13 Then Paul answered, What do you mean by 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.
• Gal 5:26 : 26 Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.
• Phil 1:15-18 : 15 Some indeed preach Christ even from envy and strife, and some also from goodwill: 16 The former preach Christ from selfish ambition, not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my chains: 17 But the latter out of love, knowing that I am appointed for the defense of the gospel. 18 What then? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is preached; and in this I rejoice, yes, and will rejoice.
• Phil 1:20-21 : 20 According to my earnest expectation and hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death. 21 For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
• Phil 2:3 : 3 Let nothing be done through strife or vanity; but in humility let each consider others better than themselves.
• 1 Tim 4:8 : 8 For bodily exercise profits little, but godliness is profitable for all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.
• Isa 57:12 : 12 I will declare your righteousness and your works; for they shall not profit you.