1 Corinthians 11:17-22
1599 Geneva Bible
17 ¶ [a]Now in this that I declare, I praise you not, that ye come together, not with profit, but with hurt.
18 [b]For first of all, when ye come together in the Church, I hear that there are dissensions among you: and I believe it to be true in some part.
19 [c]For there must be heresies even among you, that they which are [d]approved among you, might be known.
20 When ye come together therefore into one place, this is [e]not to eat the Lord’s Supper.
21 For every man when they should eat, taketh his own supper [f]afore, and one is hungry, and another is drunken.
22 [g]Have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? despise ye the Church of God, and shame them that have not? what shall I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I praise you not.
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- 1 Corinthians 11:17 He passeth now to the next treatise concerning the right administration of the Lord’s Supper. And the Apostle useth this sharper preface that the Corinthians might understand, that whereas they observed generally the Apostle’s commandments, yet they foully neglected them in a matter of greatest importance.
- 1 Corinthians 11:18 To celebrate the Lord’s Supper aright, it is required that there be not only consent of doctrine, but also of affections, that it be not profaned.
- 1 Corinthians 11:19 Although that schisms and heresies proceed from the devil, are evil, and yet they come not by chance, nor without cause, and they turn to the profit of the elect.
- 1 Corinthians 11:19 Whom experience hath taught to be of sound Religion and godliness.
- 1 Corinthians 11:20 This is an usual kind of speech, whereby the Apostle denieth that flatly, which many did not well.
- 1 Corinthians 11:21 Eateth his meat and tarrieth not till other come.
- 1 Corinthians 11:22 The Apostle thinketh it good to take away the love feasts, for their abuse, although they had been a long time, and with commendation used in Churches, and were appointed and instituted by the Apostles.
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