Verse 17
The Corinthians’ behavior at the Lord’s Supper was so bad that Paul could say they were worse off for observing it as they did rather than better off. Their failure was not that they failed to observe the Lord’s Supper. It was that when they gathered they did not behave as the church, in which there is no distinction between "Jews or Greeks," "slaves or free" (1 Corinthians 12:13). In the unsaved Gentile culture of Paul’s day it was typical for hosts to give preferential treatment to persons of status. [Note: Keener, p. 98.]
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