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But, in giving you the following charge, I praise you not, - in that, not for the better, but for the worse, ye come together.

For, first of all, - when ye come together in assembly, I hear that divisions among you exist, - and, in part, I believe it;

For there must needs be, even parties among you, that, the approved, themselvesmay become manifest among you.

When, therefore, ye come together into one place, it is not to eat, a supper unto the Lord;

For, each one, taketh beforehand, his own supper, in your eating, and, one, indeed, is hungry, whereas, another, is drinking to excess.

What! have ye not houses for your eating and drinking? or, the assembly of God, do ye despise, and, put to shame them who have nothing? What am I to say to you? Shall I praise you? In this, I praise you not.