Paul Teaches That Discipleship Without Compassion For Others Is Meaningless

83. The Apostle Paul teaches us that without compassion for others our Christian discipleship and achievements are meaningless.

84. Recall in his first letter to the Corinthians Paul admonishes: "If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love [compassion], I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love [compassion], I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver my body to be burned, but have not love [compassion], I gain nothing." (1 Corinthians 13: 1-3, RSV.)