Verse 22

Do you not have houses so that you can eat and drink? Or are you trying to show contempt for the church of God by shaming those who have nothing? What should I say to you? Should I praise you? I will not praise you for this!

Referenced Verses

• 1 Cor 10:32 : 32 Do not give offense to Jews or Greeks or to the church of God,
• Prov 17:5 : 5 The one who mocks the poor has insulted his Creator; whoever rejoices over disaster will not go unpunished.
• Acts 20:28 : 28 Watch out for yourselves and for all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God that he obtained with the blood of his own Son.
• 1 Tim 3:5 : 5 But if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he care for the church of God?
• 1 Tim 3:15 : 15 in case I am delayed, to let you know how people ought to conduct themselves in the household of God, because it is the church of the living God, the support and bulwark of the truth.
• Jas 2:5-6 : 5 Listen, my dear brothers and sisters! Did not God choose the poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom that he promised to those who love him? 6 But you have dishonored the poor! Are not the rich oppressing you and dragging you into the courts?
• 1 Cor 11:2 : 2 Women’s Head Coverings I praise you because you remember me in everything and maintain the traditions just as I passed them on to you.
• 1 Cor 11:17 : 17 The Lord’s Supper Now in giving the following instruction I do not praise you, because you come together not for the better but for the worse.
• 1 Cor 15:9 : 9 For I am the least of the apostles, unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.