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Now in giving this next instruction ^(C1)I do not praise you, because you come together not for the better, but for the worse.

For, in the first place, when you come together ^(F1)as a church, I hear that ^(F2)(C1)divisions exist among you; and in part I believe it.

For there also ^(C1)have to be factions among you, ^(C2)so that those who are approved may become ^(F1)evident among you.

Therefore when you come together it is not to eat the Lord's Supper,

for when you eat, each one takes his own supper first; and one goes hungry while ^(C1)another gets drunk.

What! Do you not have houses in which to eat and drink? Or do you despise the ^(C1)church of God and ^(C2)shame those who have nothing? What am I to say to you? Shall ^(C3)I praise you? In this I do not praise you.

For ^(C1)I received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you, that ^(C2)the Lord Jesus, on the night when He was betrayed, took bread;