1st Corinthians Chapter 11 verse 17 Holy Bible
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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But in giving you this order, there is one thing about which I am not pleased: it is that when you come together it is not for the better but for the worse.
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But [in] prescribing [to you on] this [which I now enter on], I do not praise, [namely,] that ye come together, not for the better, but for the worse.
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Now in this that I declare unto you I praise you not, that ye come together not for the better, but for the worse.
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But in giving you this command, I don't praise you, that you come together not for the better but for the worse.
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And this declaring, I give no praise, because not for the better, but for the worse ye come together;
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerses 17-34. - Discreditable irregularities at the Eucharist and the agapae. Verse 17. - Now in this that I declare unto you I praise you not; rather, as in the Revised Version, But in giving you this charge, I praise you not. A reference to the "I praise you" of ver. 2. Ye come together. As he advances, his rebukes become more and more serious; for the present reproach does not affect a few, but the Church assembly in general.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(17) Now in this that I declare unto you . . .--Better, Now I give you this command, while not praising you that you come together not for the better, but for the worse. These words lead from the subject which has gone before to another and different abuse of liberty in public assemblies, of which the Apostle is now about to speak. There were evidently three great abuses which had crept into the Church:--1. The discarding by the women of the covering for their heads. This only concerned one sex, and has been treated of in the earlier part of this chapter. The other two affect both sexes. 2. The disorders at the Lord's Supper. 3. The misuse of spiritual gifts. The former of these occupies the remainder of this chapter, while the latter is discussed in 1Corinthians 12:1-30. To render the Greek word "I declare," as in the Authorised version, and so make it refer to what is about to follow, gives a more logical completeness to the passage, but it is scarcely allowable, as the Greek word elsewhere always means a distinct command (1Corinthians 7:10; 1Thessalonians 4:11; 2Thessalonians 3:6; 2Thessalonians 3:10; 2Thessalonians 3:12, et al.). Others have suggested that St. Paul anticipates in thought the practical direction which occurs in 1Corinthians 11:34, and alludes to it here in the words, "This I command you." This view is open to the objections (1) that it completely isolates 1Corinthians 11:17 from 1Corinthians 11:16, while the Greek evidently intimates a connection between them; (2) that it is unnatural to separate the statement so far from the command to which it refers. It is better to regard these words as given above--forming a sort of intellectual isthmus connecting the two wide fields of thought which the earlier and later portions of the chapter embrace. . . .
