"Now in this that I declare unto you I praise you not, that ye come together not for the better, but for the worse."
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For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same:
Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbor, and not suffer sin upon him.
Open rebuke is better than secret love.
Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.
Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.
Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not;
When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord's supper.
How is it then, brethren? when ye come together, every one of you hath a psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation. Let all things be done unto edifying.
Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and keep the ordinances, as I delivered them to you.
And if any man hunger, let him eat at home; that ye come not together unto condemnation. And the rest will I set in order when I come.
If therefore the whole church be come together into one place, and all speak with tongues, and there come in those that are unlearned, or unbelievers, will they not say that ye are mad?
Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.
Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well.
What? have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or despise ye the church of God, and shame them that have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I praise you not.
But in giving you this order, there is one thing about which I am not pleased: it is that when you come together it is not for the better but for the worse.
But [in] prescribing [to you on] this [which I now enter on], I do not praise, [namely,] that ye come together, not for the better, but for the worse.
Now in this that I declare unto you I praise you not, that ye come together not for the better, but for the worse.
Now in this that I declare to you, I praise you not, that ye come together not for the better, but for the worse.
But in giving you this command, I don't praise you, that you come together not for the better but for the worse.
And this declaring, I give no praise, because not for the better, but for the worse ye come together;