1 Corinthians 11:17

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

Additional Resources

Referenced Verses

  • 1 Cor 11:22 : 22 What? have you not houses to take your meals in? or have you no respect for the church of God, putting the poor to shame? What am I to say to you? am I to give you praise? certainly not.
  • 1 Cor 11:34 : 34 If any man is in need of food, let him take his meal in his house; so that you may not come together to your damage. And the rest I will put in order when I come.
  • 1 Cor 14:23 : 23 If, then, the church has come together, and all are using tongues, and there come in men without knowledge or faith, will they not say that you are unbalanced?
  • 1 Cor 11:2 : 2 Now I am pleased to see that you keep me in memory in all things, and that you give attention to the teaching which was handed down from me to you.
  • Heb 10:25 : 25 Not giving up our meetings, as is the way of some, but keeping one another strong in faith; and all the more because you see the day coming near.
  • 1 Pet 2:14 : 14 And those of the rulers who are sent by him for the punishment of evil-doers and for the praise of those who do well.
  • 1 Cor 11:20 : 20 But now, when you come together, it is not possible to take the holy meal of the Lord:
  • 1 Cor 14:26 : 26 What is it then, my brothers? when you come together everyone has a holy song, or a revelation, or a tongue, or is giving the sense of it. Let everything be done for the common good.
  • Lev 19:17 : 17 Let there be no hate in your heart for your brother; but you may make a protest to your neighbour, so that he may be stopped from doing evil.
  • Prov 27:5 : 5 Better is open protest than love kept secret.
  • Isa 1:13-14 : 13 Give me no more false offerings; the smoke of burning flesh is disgusting to me, so are your new moons and Sabbaths and your holy meetings. 14 Your new moons and your regular feasts are a grief to my soul: they are a weight in my spirit; I am crushed under them.
  • Isa 58:1-4 : 1 Make a loud cry, do not be quiet, let your voice be sounding like a horn, and make clear to my people their evil doings, and to the family of Jacob their sins. 2 Though they make prayer to me every day, and take pleasure in the knowledge of my ways: like a nation which has done righteousness, and has not given up the rules of their God, they make requests to me for the right orders, it is their delight to come near to God. 3 They say, Why have we kept ourselves from food, and you do not see it? why have we kept ourselves from pleasure, and you take no note of it? If, in the days when you keep from food, you take the chance to do your business, and get in your debts; 4 If keeping from food makes you quickly angry, ready for fighting and giving blows with evil hands; your holy days are not such as to make your voice come to my ears on high.
  • Jer 7:9-9 : 9 Will you take the goods of others, put men to death, and be untrue to your wives, and take false oaths, and have perfumes burned to the Baal, and go after other gods which are strange to you; 10 And come and take your place before me in this house, which is named by my name, and say, We have been made safe; so that you may do all these disgusting things?
  • Rom 13:3 : 3 For rulers are not a cause of fear to the good work but to the evil. If you would have no fear of the authority, do good and you will have praise;

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • 1 Cor 11:18-22
    5 verses
    83%

    18 For first of all, it has come to my ears that when you come together in the church, there are divisions among you, and I take the statement to be true in part.

    19 For divisions are necessary among you, in order that those who have God's approval may be clearly seen among you.

    20 But now, when you come together, it is not possible to take the holy meal of the Lord:

    21 For when you take your food, everyone takes his meal before the other; and one has not enough food, and another is the worse for drink.

    22 What? have you not houses to take your meals in? or have you no respect for the church of God, putting the poor to shame? What am I to say to you? am I to give you praise? certainly not.

  • 1 Cor 11:16
    74%

    16 But if any man will not be ruled in this question, this is not our way of doing things, and it is not done in the churches of God.

  • 1 Cor 1:10-12
    3 verses
    73%

    10 Now I make request to you, my brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you will all say the same thing, and that there may be no divisions among you, so that you may be in complete agreement, in the same mind and in the same opinion.

    11 Because it has come to my knowledge, through those of the house of Chloe, that there are divisions among you, my brothers.

    12 That is, that some of you say, I am of Paul; some say, I am of Apollos; some say, I am of Cephas; and some say, I am Christ's.

  • 1 Cor 11:29-34
    6 verses
    72%

    29 For a man puts himself in danger, if he takes part in the holy meal without being conscious that it is the Lord's body.

    30 For this cause a number of you are feeble and ill, and a number are dead.

    31 But if we were true judges of ourselves, punishment would not come on us.

    32 But if punishment does come, it is sent by the Lord, so that we may be safe when the world is judged.

    33 So then, my brothers, when you come together to the holy meal of the Lord, let there be waiting for one another.

    34 If any man is in need of food, let him take his meal in his house; so that you may not come together to your damage. And the rest I will put in order when I come.

  • 2 Cor 12:19-21
    3 verses
    72%

    19 It may seem to you that all this time we have been attempting to put ourselves in the right; but we are saying these things before God in Christ. For all things, dear brothers, are for your profit.

    20 For I have a fear that, when I come, you may not be answering to my desire, and that I may not be answering to yours; that there may be fighting, hate, angry feeling, divisions, evil talk about others, secrets, thoughts of pride, outbursts against authority;

    21 And that when I come again, my God may put me to shame among you, and I may have grief for those who have done wrong before and have had no regret for their unclean ways, and for the evil desires of the flesh to which they have given way.

  • 1 Cor 14:17
    72%

    17 For your giving of the blessing is certainly well done, but of no profit to the man without knowledge.

  • 1 Cor 5:2
    71%

    2 And in place of feeling sorrow, you are pleased with yourselves, so that he who has done this thing has not been sent away from among you.

  • Rom 16:17
    70%

    17 Now, it is my desire, brothers, that you will take note of those who are causing division and trouble among you, quite against the teaching which was given to you: and keep away from them.

  • 2 Cor 12:13
    70%

    13 For what is there in which you were made less than the other churches, but in the one thing that I was not a trouble to you? Let me have forgiveness for this wrong.

  • 1 Cor 3:3-4
    2 verses
    70%

    3 Because you are still in the flesh: for when there is envy and division among you, are you not still walking after the way of the flesh, even as natural men?

    4 For when one says, I am of Paul; and another says, I am of Apollos; are you not talking like natural men?

  • 2 Thess 2:1
    70%

    1 Now as to the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, and our meeting with him, it is our desire, my brothers,

  • 2 Cor 11:17
    69%

    17 What I am now saying is not by the order of the Lord, but as a foolish person, taking credit to myself, as it seems.

  • 1 Cor 4:6
    69%

    6 My brothers, it is because of you that I have taken Apollos and myself as examples of these things, so that in us you might see that it is not wise to go farther than what is in the holy Writings, so that no one of you may be lifted up against his brother.

  • 1 Cor 6:7
    69%

    7 More than this, it is not to your credit to have causes at law with one another at all. Why not put up with wrong? why not undergo loss?

  • 1 Cor 4:18
    69%

    18 Now some are full of pride, as if I was not coming to you.

  • 3 John 1:10
    69%

    10 So if I come, I will keep in mind the things he does, talking against us with evil words: and as if this was not enough, he does not take the brothers into his house, and those who are ready to take them in, he keeps from doing so, putting them out of the church if they do.

  • Heb 10:25
    69%

    25 Not giving up our meetings, as is the way of some, but keeping one another strong in faith; and all the more because you see the day coming near.

  • 1 Pet 4:4
    69%

    4 And they are wondering that you no longer go with them in this violent wasting of life, and are saying evil things of you:

  • 1 Cor 14:26
    69%

    26 What is it then, my brothers? when you come together everyone has a holy song, or a revelation, or a tongue, or is giving the sense of it. Let everything be done for the common good.

  • 1 Cor 11:2
    69%

    2 Now I am pleased to see that you keep me in memory in all things, and that you give attention to the teaching which was handed down from me to you.

  • 2 Cor 13:10
    69%

    10 For this cause I am writing these things while I am away, so that there may be need for me, when I am present, to make use of sharp measures, by the authority which the Lord has given me for building up and not for destruction.

  • 2 John 1:11
    68%

    11 For he who gives him words of love has a part in his evil works.

  • 1 Cor 5:9
    68%

    9 In my letter I said to you that you were not to keep company with those who go after the desires of the flesh;

  • Jas 4:16
    68%

    16 But now you go on glorying in your pride: and all such glorying is evil.

  • 1 Cor 6:5
    68%

    5 I say this to put you to shame. Is there not among you one wise man who may be able to give a decision between his brothers?

  • Rom 14:16
    68%

    16 Let it not be possible for men to say evil about your good:

  • 1 Cor 5:6
    68%

    6 This pride of yours is not good. Do you not see that a little leaven makes a change in all the mass?

  • 1 Cor 8:8
    68%

    8 But God's approval of us is not based on the food we take: if we do not take it we are no worse for it; and if we take it we are no better.

  • 1 Cor 5:11
    67%

    11 But the sense of my letter was that if a brother had the name of being one who went after the desires of the flesh, or had the desire for other people's property, or was in the way of using violent language, or being the worse for drink, or took by force what was not his, you might not keep company with such a one, or take food with him.

  • 1 Cor 12:1
    67%

    1 But about the things of the spirit, my brothers, it is not right for you to be without teaching.

  • Jude 1:17
    67%

    17 But you, my loved ones, keep in memory the words which were said before by the Apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ,

  • Gal 1:7
    67%

    7 Which is not another sort: only there are some who give you trouble, desiring to make changes in the good news of Christ.

  • 2 Cor 9:4
    67%

    4 For fear that, if any from Macedonia come with me, and you are not ready, we (not to say, you) might be put to shame in this thing.

  • Phil 1:16
    67%

    16 These do it from love, conscious that I am responsible for the cause of the good news:

  • 1 Thess 5:11
    67%

    11 So then, go on comforting and building up one another, as you have been doing.

  • 2 Cor 8:13
    67%

    13 And I am not saying this so that others may get off free, while the weight comes on you: