1st Corinthians Chapter 11 verse 18 Holy Bible
For first of all, when ye come together in the church, I hear that divisions exist among you; and I partly believe it.
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For first of all, it has come to my ears that when you come together in the church, there are divisions among you, and I take the statement to be true in part.
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For first, when ye come together in assembly, I hear there exist divisions among you, and I partly give credit [to it].
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For first of all, when ye come together in the church, I hear that there be divisions among you; and I partly believe it.
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For first of all, when you come together in the assembly, I hear that divisions exist among you, and I partly believe it.
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for first, indeed, ye coming together in an assembly, I hear of divisions being among you, and partly I believe `it',
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 18. - First of all. The "second" rebuke is not clearly stated, but is no doubt meant to refer to the abuses in "speaking with the tongue." In the Church; rather, in congregation, or assembly. The reference is not to a particular building. The Lord's Supper was administered frequently (originally every day, Acts 2:46), and often in private houses. Divisions; schisms (ch. 1:10, 12). Here, however, he is referring to cliques and quarrels at the love feasts. Partly! cannot think, he says, in a tone of kindness, that these reports are wholly false. There must be some ground for them, even if the facts have been exaggerated.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(18) For first of all.--We in vain look for the "secondly," which, in a perfectly systematic treatise, should follow this "first." Some writers maintain that 1Corinthians 11:18-19 form the first point, and 1Corinthians 11:20-34 the second. There is, however, no indication of a new subject being introduced with 1Corinthians 11:20, but the repetition of the words "come together" carries the mind back at once to the "come together" in 1Corinthians 11:18, and indicates the continuation of the subject there commenced, and from which the Apostle had, at the mention of the word "divisions," for a moment parenthetically digressed.It is better to consider the "first point" to be the abuse regarding the Lord's Supper, which is more immediately treated of; and the "second point," the abuse of spiritual gifts, commencing with 1Corinthians 12:1. They are two branches of the one general subject, viz., "Irregularities in religious assemblies," and although the latter is not connected with the former by a definite "secondly," there is a sufficient verbal indication that a second topic is entered upon. It is well to remember in this and similar cases that this is not a treatise, but a letter, and not only a letter, but an answer to a letter, and that if we had a copy of the epistle to which this is a reply, many points of sequence and arrangement, which at present present difficulties, would be as clear to us as they were to those who originally received this Epistle. . . .
