1 Corinthians 11:17

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • 1 Cor 11:22 : 22 What, don't you have houses to eat and to drink in? Or do you despise God's assembly, and put them to shame who don't have? What shall I tell you? Shall I praise you? In this I don't praise you.
  • 1 Cor 11:34 : 34 But if anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, lest your coming together be for judgment. The rest I will set in order whenever I come.
  • 1 Cor 14:23 : 23 If therefore the whole assembly is assembled together and all speak with other languages, and unlearned or unbelieving people come in, won't they say that you are crazy?
  • 1 Cor 11:2 : 2 Now I praise you, brothers, that you remember me in all things, and hold firm the traditions, even as I delivered them to you.
  • Heb 10:25 : 25 not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another; and so much the more, as you see the Day approaching.
  • 1 Pet 2:14 : 14 or to governors, as sent by him for vengeance on evildoers and for praise to those who do well.
  • 1 Cor 11:20 : 20 When therefore you assemble yourselves together, it is not the Lord's supper that you eat.
  • 1 Cor 14:26 : 26 What is it then, brothers? When you come together, each one of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a revelation, has another language, has an interpretation. Let all things be done to build each other up.
  • Lev 19:17 : 17 "'You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him.
  • Prov 27:5 : 5 Better is open rebuke than hidden love.
  • Isa 1:13-14 : 13 Bring no more vain offerings. Incense is an abomination to me; new moons, Sabbaths, and convocations: I can't bear with evil assemblies. 14 My soul hates your New Moons and your appointed feasts. They are a burden to me. I am weary of bearing them.
  • Isa 58:1-4 : 1 "Cry aloud, don't spare, lift up your voice like a trumpet, and declare to my people their disobedience, and to the house of Jacob their sins. 2 Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways: as a nation that did righteousness, and didn't forsake the ordinance of their God, they ask of me righteous judgments; they delight to draw near to God. 3 'Why have we fasted,' [say they], 'and you don't see? [why] have we afflicted our soul, and you take no knowledge?' "Behold, in the day of your fast you find pleasure, and exact all your labors. 4 Behold, you fast for strife and contention, and to strike with the fist of wickedness: you don't fast this day so as to make your voice to be heard on high.
  • Jer 7:9-9 : 9 Will you steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods that you have not known, 10 and come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered; that you may do all these abominations?
  • Rom 13:3 : 3 For rulers are not a terror to the good work, but to the evil. Do you desire to have no fear of the authority? Do that which is good, and you will have praise from the same,

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  • 1 Cor 11:18-22
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    18 For first of all, when you come together in the assembly, I hear that divisions exist among you, and I partly believe it.

    19 For there also must be factions among you, that those who are approved may be revealed among you.

    20 When therefore you assemble yourselves together, it is not the Lord's supper that you eat.

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

    22 What, don't you have houses to eat and to drink in? Or do you despise God's assembly, and put them to shame who don't have? What shall I tell you? Shall I praise you? In this I don't praise you.

  • 1 Cor 11:16
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    16 But if any man seems to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither do God's assemblies.

  • 1 Cor 1:10-12
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    10 Now I beg you, brothers, through the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

    11 For it has been reported to me concerning you, my brothers, by those who are from Chloe's household, that there are contentions among you.

    12 Now I mean this, that each one of you says, "I follow Paul," "I follow Apollos," "I follow Cephas," and, "I follow Christ."

  • 1 Cor 11:29-34
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    29 For he who eats and drinks in an unworthy way eats and drinks judgment to himself, if he doesn't discern the Lord's body.

    30 For this cause many among you are weak and sickly, and not a few sleep.

    31 For if we discerned ourselves, we wouldn't be judged.

    32 But when we are judged, we are punished by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.

    33 Therefore, my brothers, when you come together to eat, wait for one another.

    34 But if anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, lest your coming together be for judgment. The rest I will set in order whenever I come.

  • 2 Cor 12:19-21
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    19 Again, do you think that we are excusing ourselves to you? In the sight of God we speak in Christ. But all things, beloved, are for your edifying.

    20 For I am afraid that by any means, when I come, I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you don't desire; that by any means there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, whisperings, proud thoughts, riots;

    21 that again when I come my God would humble me before you, and I would mourn for many of those who have sinned before now, and not repented of the uncleanness and sexual immorality and lustfulness which they committed.

  • 1 Cor 14:17
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    17 For you most certainly give thanks well, but the other person is not built up.

  • 1 Cor 5:2
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    2 You are puffed up, and didn't rather mourn, that he who had done this deed might be removed from among you.

  • Rom 16:17
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    17 Now I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them.

  • 2 Cor 12:13
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    13 For what is there in which you were made inferior to the rest of the assemblies, unless it is that I myself was not a burden to you? Forgive me this wrong.

  • 1 Cor 3:3-4
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    3 for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions among you, aren't you fleshly, and don't you walk in the ways of men?

    4 For when one says, "I follow Paul," and another, "I follow Apollos," aren't you fleshly?

  • 2 Thess 2:1
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    1 Now, brothers, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and our gathering together to him, we ask you

  • 2 Cor 11:17
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    17 That which I speak, I don't speak according to the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of boasting.

  • 1 Cor 4:6
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    6 Now these things, brothers, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that in us you might learn not to think beyond the things which are written, that none of you be puffed up against one another.

  • 1 Cor 6:7
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    7 Therefore it is already altogether a defect in you, that you have lawsuits one with another. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded?

  • 1 Cor 4:18
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    18 Now some are puffed up, as though I were not coming to you.

  • 3 John 1:10
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    10 Therefore, if I come, I will call attention to his deeds which he does, unjustly accusing us with wicked words. Not content with this, neither does he himself receive the brothers, and those who would, he forbids and throws out of the assembly.

  • Heb 10:25
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    25 not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another; and so much the more, as you see the Day approaching.

  • 1 Pet 4:4
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    4 They think it is strange that you don't run with them into the same excess of riot, blaspheming:

  • 1 Cor 14:26
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    26 What is it then, brothers? When you come together, each one of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a revelation, has another language, has an interpretation. Let all things be done to build each other up.

  • 1 Cor 11:2
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    2 Now I praise you, brothers, that you remember me in all things, and hold firm the traditions, even as I delivered them to you.

  • 2 Cor 13:10
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    10 For this cause I write these things while absent, that I may not deal sharply when present, according to the authority which the Lord gave me for building up, and not for tearing down.

  • 2 John 1:11
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    11 for he who welcomes him participates in his evil works.

  • 1 Cor 5:9
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    9 I wrote to you in my letter to have no company with sexual sinners;

  • Jas 4:16
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    16 But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.

  • 1 Cor 6:5
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    5 I say this to move you to shame. Isn't there even one wise man among you who would be able to decide between his brothers?

  • Rom 14:16
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    16 Then don't let your good be slandered,

  • 1 Cor 5:6
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    6 Your boasting is not good. Don't you know that a little yeast leavens the whole lump?

  • 1 Cor 8:8
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    8 But food will not commend us to God. For neither, if we don't eat, are we the worse; nor, if we eat, are we the better.

  • 1 Cor 5:11
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    11 But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner. Don't even eat with such a person.

  • 1 Cor 12:1
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    1 Now concerning spiritual things, brothers, I don't want you to be ignorant.

  • Jude 1:17
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    17 But you, beloved, remember the words which have been spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ.

  • Gal 1:7
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    7 and there isn't another "good news." Only there are some who trouble you, and want to pervert the Good News of Christ.

  • 2 Cor 9:4
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    4 so that I won't by any means, if there come with me any of Macedonia and find you unprepared, we (to say nothing of you) should be disappointed in this confident boasting.

  • Phil 1:16
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    16 The former insincerely preach Christ from selfish ambition, thinking that they add affliction to my chains;

  • 1 Thess 5:11
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    11 Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do.

  • 2 Cor 8:13
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    13 For this is not that others may be eased and you distressed,