Institutes 3.18.8 — THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF WORKS IMPROPERLY INFERRED FROM REWARDS.

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**THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF WORKS IMPROPERLY INFERRED FROM REWARDS.**

Our opponents also adduce the following passages from Paul: “Though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing,” ( 1 Cor. 13:2 ). Again, “Now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity,” ( 1 Cor. 13:13 ). “Above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness,” ( Col. 3:14 ). From the two first passages our Pharisees See Calvin’s Answer to Sadolet, who had said that chairty is the first and principal cause of our salvation.

Source

• source-manifest/institutes — Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, tr. Beveridge 1845 (PD)
• evidence_grade: D_doctrinal_textbook