Those who mock the poor insult their Maker; those who are glad at calamity will not go unpunished.
1 Corinthians 11:22 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 What! Do you not have households to eat and drink in? Or do you show contempt for the church of God and humiliate those who have nothing? What should I say to you? Should I commend you? In this matter I do not commend you! More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition What! Do you have no houses in which to eat and drink? Or do you despise the church of God and mean to show contempt for it, while you humiliate those who are poor (have no homes and have brought no food)? What shall I say to you? Shall I commend you in this? No, [most certainly] I will not! American Standard Version (1901) What, have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or despise ye the church of God, and put them to shame that have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you? In this I praise you not. Common English Bible Don’t you have houses to eat and drink in? Or do you look down on God’s churches and humiliate those who have nothing? What can I say to you? Will I praise you? No, I don’t praise you in this. Catholic Public Domain Version Do you not have houses, in which to eat and drink? Or do you have such contempt for the Church of God that you would confound those who do not have such contempt? What should I say to you? Should I praise you? I am not praising you in this. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version What, have you not houses to eat and to drink in? Or despise ye the church of God; and put them to shame that have not? What shall I say to you? Do I praise you? In this I praise you not. |
Those who mock the poor insult their Maker; those who are glad at calamity will not go unpunished.
Keep watch over yourselves and over all the flock, of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God that he obtained with the blood of his own Son.
Now in the following instructions I do not commend you, because when you come together it is not for the better but for the worse.
I commend you because you remember me in everything and maintain the traditions just as I handed them on to you.
If you are hungry, eat at home, so that when you come together, it will not be for your condemnation. About the other things I will give instructions when I come.
For I am the least of the apostles, unfit to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
if I am delayed, you may know how one ought to behave in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and support of the truth.
for if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how can he take care of God’s church?