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1 Corinthians 11:16

But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God.

KJV

Εἰ δέ τις δοκεῖ φιλόνεικος εἶναι, ἡμεῖς τοιαύτην συνήθειαν οὐκ ἔχομεν, οὐδὲ αἱ ἐκκλησίαι τοῦ θεοῦ.

Greek NT

Si quis autem videtur contentiosus esse : nos talem consuetudinem non habemus, neque ecclesia Dei.

Vulgate

But if any man seemeth to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God.

ASV

But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, nor the Church of God.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

15 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
δοκέω
dokeo
verb · 62×
εἰ
ei
conditional · 491×
εἰμί
eimi
verb · 2461×
θεός
theos
noun · 1311×
οὐ
ou
particle · 1626×
οὐδέ
oude
conjunction · 137×
συνήθεια
sunetheia
noun · 3×
τοιοῦτος
toioutos
demonstrative · 57×
τὶς
tis
indefinite_pronoun · 527×
φιλόνεικος
philoneikos
adjective · 1×
ἐκκλησία
ekklesia
noun · 114×
ἔχω
echo
verb · 707×
ἡμεῖς
emeis
pronoun · 862×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×

Historic Christian voices

5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

2. Having finished therefore all the discourses concerning all these things, he next proceeds also to another accusation. And what was this? Their women used both to pray and prophesy unveiled and with their head bare, (for then women also used to prophesy;) but the men went so far as to wear long hair as having spent their time in philosophy , and covered their heads when pray…
2. But besides these things, he also shames them by consideration of what all agreed on, and what was every where prescribed; which topic also here he has set down, saying, 1 Corinthians 14:36 What? Was it from you that the word of God went forth? Or came it unto you alone? Thus he brings in the other Churches also as holding this law, both abating the disturbance by considerat…

Cross-references

  • 1Cor 4:17 — For this cause have I sent unto you Timotheus, who is my beloved son, and faithful in the Lord, who shall bring you into remembrance of my ways which be in Christ, as I teach every where in every chur
  • 1Cor 7:17 — But as God hath distributed to every man, as the Lord hath called every one, so let him walk. And so ordain I in all churches.
  • 1Cor 14:33 — For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.
  • 1Cor 14:33 — For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.
  • 1Thess 2:14 — For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which in Judaea are in Christ Jesus: for ye also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews:
  • 1Tim 6:3 — If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness;
  • Acts 21:21 — And they are informed of thee, that thou teachest all the Jews which are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, saying that they ought not to circumcise their children, neither to walk after the customs
  • Acts 21:24 — Them take, and purify thyself with them, and be at charges with them, that they may shave their heads: and all may know that those things, whereof they were informed concerning thee, are nothing; but