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1 Corinthians 11:17

Now in this that I declare unto you I praise you not, that ye come together not for the better, but for the worse.

KJV

Τοῦτο δὲ παραγγέλλων οὐκ ἐπαινῶ ὅτι οὐκ εἰς τὸ κρεῖσσον ἀλλὰ εἰς τὸ ἧσσον συνέρχεσθε.

Greek NT

Hoc autem præcipio : non laudans quod non in melius, sed in deterius convenitis.

Vulgate

But in giving you this charge, I praise you not, that ye come together not for the better but for the worse.

ASV

Now this I ordain: not praising you, that you come together, not for the better, but for the worse.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

12 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
εἰς
eis
preposition · 1769×
κρεῖσσον
kreisson
adjective · 6×
οὐ
ou
particle · 1626×
οὗτος
outos
demonstrative · 1380×
παραγγέλλω
paraggello
verb · 30×
συνέρχομαι
sunerchomai
verb · 31×
ἀλλά
alla
conjunction · 636×
ἐπαινέω
epaineo
verb · 6×
ἥττον
etton
adjective · 2×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὅτι
oti
conjunction · 1299×

Textual variants

1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

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SBLGNT: παραγγέλλων οὐκ ἐπαινῶ | WH/NIV/RP: παραγγέλλων οὐκ ἐπαινῶ | Treg: παραγγέλλω οὐκ ἐπαινῶν
  • παραγγέλλων οὐκ ἐπαινῶ — SBLGNT
  • παραγγέλλων οὐκ ἐπαινῶ — Westcott-Hort, Reader's GNT (NA27), Robinson-Pierpont
  • παραγγέλλω οὐκ ἐπαινῶν — Tregelles
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Historic Christian voices

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

§1329The Lord's Supper, because of its connection with the supper which the Lord took with his disciples on the eve of his Passion and because it anticipates the wedding feast of the Lamb in the heavenly Jerusalem.141 The Breaking of Bread, because Jesus used this rite, part of a Jewish meat when as master of the table he blessed and distributed the bread,142 above all at the Last S…
§2178This practice of the Christian assembly dates from the beginnings of the apostolic age.112 The Letter to the Hebrews reminds the faithful "not to neglect to meet together, as is the habit of some, but to encourage one another."113 Tradition preserves the memory of an ever-timely exhortation: Come to Church early, approach the Lord, and confess your sins, repent in prayer.... Be…
2. For he that eats and drinks unworthily, eats and drinks judgment to himself. What do you say, tell me? Is this Table which is the cause of so many blessings and teeming with life, become judgment? Not from its own nature, says he, but from the will of him that approaches. For as His presence, which conveyed to us those great and unutterable blessings, condemned the more them…

Cross-references

  • 1Cor 11:2 — Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and keep the ordinances, as I delivered them to you.
  • 1Cor 11:2 — Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and keep the ordinances, as I delivered them to you.
  • 1Cor 11:22 — 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.
  • 1Cor 14:23 — If therefore the whole church be come together into one place, and all speak with tongues, and there come in those that are unlearned, or unbelievers, will they not say that ye are mad?
  • 1Cor 14:26 — How is it then, brethren? when ye come together, every one of you hath a psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation. Let all things be done unto edifying.
  • 1Pet 2:14 — Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well.
  • Acts 20:7 — And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight.
  • Heb 10:25 — Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.
  • Heb 10:25 — Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.
  • Isa 1:13 — Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.
  • Isa 58:1 — Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.
  • Lev 19:17 — Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him.