1 Corinthians 11:22

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

What, have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or despise ye the church of God, and put them to shame that have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you? In this I praise you not.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Μὴ γὰρ; οἰκίας οὐκ ἔχετε εἰς τὸ ἐσθίειν καὶ πίνειν; ἢ τῆς ἐκκλησίας τοῦ Θεοῦ καταφρονεῖτε, καὶ καταισχύνετε τοὺς μὴ ἔχοντας; Τί ὑμῖν εἴπω; ἐπαινέσω ὑμᾶς ἐν τούτῳ; οὐκ ἐπαινῶ.

Transliteration

Not gar? Oikias not you echete for the esthiein and pinein? Or the ekklēsias of the Theou you kataphroneite, and kataischynete the ones not echontas? What to you shall I eipō? Shall I epainesō you in this? Not I epainō.

Grammar Details

• Μὴ: negative particle - not
• *gar*: postpositive conjunction - for
• *Oikias*: accusative, feminine, plural - houses/homes
• οὐκ: negative particle - not
• *echete*: present active indicative, 2nd person plural - you have
• εἰς: preposition with accusative - for
• *esthiein*: present active infinitive - to eat
• καὶ: conjunction - and
• *pinein*: present active infinitive - to drink
• ἢ: disjunctive conjunction - or
• *ekklēsias*: genitive, feminine, singular - of church/assembly
• *Theou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of God
• *kataphroneite*: present active indicative, 2nd person plural - you despise
• *kataischynete*: present active indicative, 2nd person plural - you shame
• *echontas*: present active participle, accusative, masculine, plural - having
• Τί: interrogative pronoun, accusative, neuter, singular - what
• ὑμῖν: personal pronoun, dative, 2nd person plural - to you
• *eipō*: aorist active subjunctive, 1st person singular - I should say
• *epainesō*: future active indicative, 1st person singular - I will praise
• ὑμᾶς: personal pronoun, accusative, 2nd person plural - you
• ἐν: preposition with dative - in
• τούτῳ: demonstrative pronoun, dative, neuter, singular - this
• *epainō*: present active indicative, 1st person singular - I praise

Word Meanings

• *Oikias*: houses/homes
• *echete*: you have/you possess
• *esthiein*: to eat/to consume
• *pinein*: to drink
• *ekklēsias*: church/assembly/congregation
• *kataphroneite*: you despise/you look down on
• *kataischynete*: you shame/you humiliate
• *echontas*: having/possessing
• *eipō*: I should say/I might say
• *epainesō*: I will praise/I will commend
• *epainō*: I praise/I commend

Referenced Verses

• 1 Cor 10:32 : 32 Give no occasions of stumbling, either to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the church of God:
• Prov 17:5 : 5 Whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his Maker; [And] he that is glad at calamity shall not be unpunished.
• Acts 20:28 : 28 Take heed {G3767} unto yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit hath made you bishops, to feed the church of the Lord which he purchased with his own blood.
• 1 Tim 3:5 : 5 (but if a man knoweth not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)
• 1 Tim 3:15 : 15 but if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how men ought to behave themselves in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
• Jas 2:5-6 : 5 Hearken, my beloved brethren; did not God choose them that are poor as to the world [to be] rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he promised to them that love him? 6 But ye have dishonored the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you, and themselves drag you before the judgment-seats?
• 1 Cor 11:2 : 2 Now I praise you {G80} that ye remember me in all things, and hold fast the traditions, even as I delivered them to you.
• 1 Cor 11:17 : 17 But in giving you this charge, I praise you not, that ye come together not for the better but for the worse.
• 1 Cor 15:9 : 9 For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.