1 Corinthians 11:17-22

Jubilee Bible 2000

¹⁷ ¶ Now in this that I declare unto you I praise you not: that ye come together not for the better, but for the worse.

¹⁸ For first of all, when ye come together in the congregation, {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones} I hear that there are divisions among you; and I partly believe it.

¹⁹ For it is expedient that there also be heresies among you, so that those who are proved may become manifest among you.

²⁰ So that when ye come together in one place, this is not eating the Lord’s supper.

²¹ For in eating, each one takes his own supper first: and one is hungry, and another is drunken.

²² What? Do ye not have houses to eat and to drink in? or do ye despise the congregation {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones} of God and shame those that have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I praise you not.