Bible verse
In the following instructions I have no praise to offer, because your gatherings do more harm than good.
1 Corinthians 11:17 · BSB
The verses around it, from 1 Corinthians 11.
13 Judge for yourselves: Is it proper for a woman to pray to God with her head uncovered?
14 Doesn’t nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a disgrace to him,
15 but that if a woman has long hair, it is her glory? For long hair is given to her as a covering.
16 If anyone is inclined to dispute this, we have no other practice, nor do the churches of God.
17 In the following instructions I have no praise to offer, because your gatherings do more harm than good.
18 First of all, I hear that when you come together as a church, there are divisions among you, and in part I believe it.
19 And indeed, there must be differences among you to show which of you are approved.
20 Now then, when you come together, it is not the Lord’s Supper you eat.
21 For as you eat, each of you goes ahead without sharing his meal. While one remains hungry, another gets drunk.
KJV
Now in this that I declare [unto you] I praise [you] not, that ye come together not for the better, but for the worse.
ASV
But in giving you this charge, I praise you not, that ye come together not for the better but for the worse.
ERV
But in giving you this charge, I praise you not, that ye come together not for the better but for the worse.
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