“There may be an open and lavish hand, where there is no liberal and charitable heart…Our doing good to others will do none to us, if it be not well done, namely, from a principle of devotion and charity, love to God, and good-will to men.”
If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing. 1 Corinthians 13:3
Matthew Henry in Commentary on the Bible, notes on 1 Corinthians 13:3 (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1991).