Sentences with phrase «noisy gong»

Because, «if I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

Without some kind of pastoral practice, I realized, my efforts in theological education were going to become a noisy gong.

Paul makes the same point, but even more emphatically, when he tells us it doesn't matter how right we are, how spiritually gifted we are, how intelligent or wise we are, or even how much faith and service we display: if these aren't accompanied by love, they are a noisy gong or clanging cymbal (I Cor 13:1 - 3).

As Paul reminds us, if we do not have love we are «a noisy gong or clanging cymbal» (1 Corinthians 13:1)

«13 If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn't love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.