Don’t you have your own homes in which to eat and drink? Or do you despise the church of God and humiliate those who have nothing? What can I say to you? Shall I praise you for this? No, I will not!
Parallel translations
- WEB 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.
- KJV What? have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or despise ye the church of God, and shame them that have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I praise you not.
- NKJV What! Do you not have houses to eat and drink in? Or do you despise the church of God and shame those who have nothing? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you in this? I do not praise you.
- NASB What! Do you not have houses in which to eat and drink? Or do you despise the church of God and shame those who have nothing? What am I to say to you? Shall I praise you? In this I do not praise you.
- NLT What? Don’t you have your own homes for eating and drinking? Or do you really want to disgrace God’s church and shame the poor? What am I supposed to say? Do you want me to praise you? Well, I certainly will not praise you for this!
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Quick answer
Paul rebukes them for despising the church and humiliating the poor; for this he cannot praise them. Their behavior shamed both God's assembly and the needy.
Overview
Paul confronts the rich Corinthians: they had homes for private meals, so their conduct at the gathering only served to despise the church and shame poorer believers. Such contempt for God's people is incompatible with the Lord's Supper. The rebuke calls them to honor one another, reflecting the equality and love that belong to those redeemed by Christ.
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- Prov 17:5He who mocks the poor insults their Maker; whoever gloats over calamity will not go unpunished.
- Acts 20:28Keep watch over yourselves and the entire flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God, which He purchased with His own blood.
- Jas 2:5–6Listen, my beloved brothers: Has not God chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith and to inherit the kingdom He promised those who love Him?
- 1 Cor 10:32Do not become a stumbling block, whether to Jews or Greeks or the church of God—
- 1 Tim 3:15in case I am delayed, so that you will know how each one must conduct himself in God’s household, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.
- 1 Cor 11:17In the following instructions I have no praise to offer, because your gatherings do more harm than good.
- 1 Cor 11:2Now I commend you for remembering me in everything and for maintaining the traditions, just as I passed them on to you.
- 1 Tim 3:5For if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how can he care for the church of God?
- 1 Cor 15:9For I am the least of the apostles and am unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
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