1 Corinthians 11:17-22 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Corinthians 11:17-22

In this passage the apostle sharply rebukes them for much greater disorders than the former, in their partaking of the Lord's supper, which was commonly done in the first ages, as the ancients tell us, with a love-feast annexed, which gave occasion to the scandalous disorders which the apostle here reprehends, concerning which observe, I. The manner in which he introduces his charge: ?Now in this that I declare to you I praise you not, Rom. 11:17. I cannot commend, but must blame and condemn... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 1 Corinthians 11:17-22

11:17-22 When I give you this instruction, I am not praising you, because when you meet together it is actually doing you more harm than good. Firstly, I hear that when you meet together in assembly, there are divisions among you; and to some extent I believe it. There are bound to be differences of opinion among you, so that it may become clear which of you are of tried and sterling quality. So then when you assemble together in the same place it is certainly not the Lord's meal that you... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 11:17

Now in this that I declare unto you ,.... The Syriac version reads, "this is what I command"; which some refer to what he had been discoursing of, adding to his arguments, and the examples of the church, his own orders and command, that men should worship God publicly, uncovered, and women covered; though it seems rather to respect what follows, what the apostle was about to declare unto them; concerning which he says, I praise you not ; as he did in 1 Corinthians 11:2 that they were... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 11:18

For first of all, when ye come together in the church ,.... The place where the church met together to perform divine service, called "one place". 1 Corinthians 11:20 and is distinguished from their own "houses", 1 Corinthians 11:22 and the first thing he took notice of as worthy of dispraise and reproof, in their religious assemblies, were their animosities and factions: I hear that there be divisions among you : schisms and parties, either about their ministers, one being for Paul,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 11:19

For there must be also heresies among you .... This is a reason why he was ready to believe there might be something of truth in the report he had received of the divisions among them; for if there were heresies, false doctrines, and bad principles, among them, such as were subversive of the fundamentals of Christianity, as the denial of the resurrection of the dead, &c.; it was no wonder that there were schisms and factions among them, since heresies generally issue in them. These, the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 11:20

When ye come together therefore into one place ,.... Though επι το αυτο does not signify so much the unity of the place, as of the persons meeting together, and their conjunction; so the phrase is used by the Septuagint, in Deuteronomy 25:11 , yet it supposes a place where the church were wont to assemble for divine worship; this is not to eat the Lord's supper : their view in coming together was not so much to celebrate the supper of the Lord, as to partake of their own supper,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 11:21

For in eating ,.... Not at the Lord's table, but at tables spread for them in the place of divine worship, where everyone brought his own food, under a pretence that others, particularly the poor, should eat with him; but instead of that, he sat down and ate it himself, and would not stay till the rest came, to eat together: but everyone taketh before other his own supper ; that is, without tarrying till all came together, in order to eat a friendly meal with each other, to encourage and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 11:22

What? have ye not houses to eat and drink in ?.... This shows that one taking his supper before another, was not in their own houses, before they came to the place of divine worship, but in the house of God; and the apostle suggests, that if they must have their ante-suppers, and were disposed to eat and drink freely, before they partook of the Lord's supper, it was more decent and orderly, and less reflected upon the honour of religion and the ordinances of Christ, to eat and drink in their... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 11:17

Now in this - I praise you not - In the beginning of this epistle the apostle did praise them for their attention in general to the rules he had laid down, see 1 Corinthians 11:2 ; but here he is obliged to condemn certain irregularities which had crept in among them, particularly relative to the celebration of the Lord's Supper. Through some false teaching which they had received, in the absence of the apostle, they appear to have celebrated it precisely in the same way the Jews did their... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 11:18

There be divisions among you - They had σχισματα , schisms, among them: the old parties were kept up, even in the place where they assembled to eat the Lord's Supper. The Paulians, the Kephites, and the Apollonians, continued to be distinct parties; and ate their meals separately, even in the same house. read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Corinthians 11:17-22

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 1 Corinthians 11:17-22

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 11:17

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 11:18

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 11:19

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 11:20

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 11:21

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 11:22

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 11:17

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 11:18

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