1 Corinthians 11:17 Parallel Translations

I have no praise for you as I instruct you in the following matter: When you gather, it results in more harm than good.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

Now in this that I declare unto you I praise you not, that ye come together not for the better, but for the worse.

ASV:

But in giving you this charge, I praise you not, that ye come together not for the better but for the worse.

BBE:

But in giving you this order, there is one thing about which I am not pleased: it is that when you come together it is not for the better but for the worse.

DBY:

But in prescribing to you on this which I now enter on, I do not praise, namely, that ye come together, not for the better, but for the worse.

ERV:

But in giving you this charge, I praise you not, that ye come together not for the better but for the worse.

WEY:

But while giving you these instructions, there is one thing I cannot praise--your meeting together, with bad rather than good results.

WBS:

Now in this that I declare to you, I praise you not, that ye come together not for the better, but for the worse.

WEB:

But in giving you this command, I don't praise you, that you come together not for the better but for the worse.

YLT:

And this declaring, I give no praise, because not for the better, but for the worse ye come together;

1 Corinthians 11:17 Cross References

XREF:

1 Corinthians 11:2 Now I praise you because you remember me in everything and hold firmly to the traditions, just as I delivered them to you.

1 Corinthians 11:22 What! Do you not have houses in which to eat and drink? Or do you despise the church of God and shame those who have nothing? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you? In this I will not praise you. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

11:17 {14} Now in this that I declare [unto you] I praise [you] not, that ye come together not for the better, but for the worse.
(14) He passes now to the next treatise concerning the right administration of the Lord's supper. And the apostle uses this harsher preface, that the Corinthians might understand that whereas they generally observed the apostle's commandments, yet they badly neglected them in a matter of greatest importance.

PNT:

11:17 Now in this that I declare [unto you] I praise [you] not. That their church assemblies were not orderly.

MHC:

11:17-22 The apostle rebukes the disorders in their partaking of the Lord's supper. The ordinances of Christ, if they do not make us better, will be apt to make us worse. If the use of them does not mend, it will harden. Upon coming together, they fell into divisions, schisms. Christians may separate from each other's communion, yet be charitable one towards another; they may continue in the same communion, yet be uncharitable. This last is schism, rather than the former. There is a careless and irregular eating of the Lord's supper, which adds to guilt. Many rich Corinthians seem to have acted very wrong at the Lord's table, or at the love-feasts, which took place at the same time as the supper. The rich despised the poor, and ate and drank up the provisions they brought, before the poor were allowed to partake; thus some wanted, while others had more than enough. What should have been a bond of mutual love and affection, was made an instrument of discord and disunion. We should be careful that nothing in our behaviour at the Lord's table, appears to make light of that sacred institution. The Lord's supper is not now made an occasion for gluttony or revelling, but is it not often made the support of self-righteous pride, or a cloak for hypocrisy? Let us never rest in the outward forms of worship; but look to our hearts.

CONC:

Bad Better Charge Command Commend Declare Declaring Enter Giving Harm Instruction Instructions Meeting Meetings Namely Order Pleased Praise Prescribing Rather Results Worse

Bad Better Charge Command Commend Declare Declaring Enter Following Good Harm Instruction Instructions Meeting Meetings Namely Order Pleased Praise Prescribing Rather Results Together Worse

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