17 [a]Now in this that I declare, I praise you not, that ye come together, not with profit, but with hurt.

18 [b]For first of all, when ye come together in the Church, I hear that there are dissensions among you: and I believe it to be true in some part.

19 [c]For there must be heresies even among you, that they which are [d]approved among you, might be known.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 11:17 He passeth now to the next treatise concerning the right administration of the Lord’s Supper. And the Apostle useth this sharper preface that the Corinthians might understand, that whereas they observed generally the Apostle’s commandments, yet they foully neglected them in a matter of greatest importance.
  2. 1 Corinthians 11:18 To celebrate the Lord’s Supper aright, it is required that there be not only consent of doctrine, but also of affections, that it be not profaned.
  3. 1 Corinthians 11:19 Although that schisms and heresies proceed from the devil, are evil, and yet they come not by chance, nor without cause, and they turn to the profit of the elect.
  4. 1 Corinthians 11:19 Whom experience hath taught to be of sound Religion and godliness.

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