KJV: 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.
YLT: why, have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or the assembly of God do ye despise, and shame those not having? what may I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I do not praise!
Darby: Have ye not then houses for eating and drinking? or do ye despise the assembly of God, and put to shame them who have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you? In this point I do not praise.
ASV: 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.
| μὴ | No |
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Parse: Adverb Root: μή Sense: no, not lest. |
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| γὰρ | indeed |
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Parse: Conjunction Root: γάρ Sense: for. |
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| οἰκίας | houses |
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Parse: Noun, Accusative Feminine Plural Root: οἰκία Sense: a house. |
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| ἔχετε | have you |
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Parse: Verb, Present Indicative Active, 2nd Person Plural Root: ἔχω Sense: to have, i.e. to hold. |
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| ἐσθίειν | to eat |
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Parse: Verb, Present Infinitive Active Root: ἐσθίω Sense: to eat. |
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| πίνειν | to drink |
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Parse: Verb, Present Infinitive Active Root: πίνω Sense: to drink. |
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| ἐκκλησίας | church |
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Parse: Noun, Genitive Feminine Singular Root: ἐκκλησία Sense: a gathering of citizens called out from their homes into some public place, an assembly. |
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| τοῦ | - |
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Parse: Article, Genitive Masculine Singular Root: ὁ Sense: this, that, these, etc. |
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| Θεοῦ | of God |
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Parse: Noun, Genitive Masculine Singular Root: θεός Sense: a god or goddess, a general name of deities or divinities. |
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| καταφρονεῖτε | do you despise |
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Parse: Verb, Present Indicative Active, 2nd Person Plural Root: καταφρονέω Sense: to contemn, despise, disdain, think little or nothing of. |
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| καταισχύνετε | put to shame |
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Parse: Verb, Present Indicative Active, 2nd Person Plural Root: καταισχύνω Sense: to dishonour, disgrace. |
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| τοὺς | those |
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Parse: Article, Accusative Masculine Plural Root: ὁ Sense: this, that, these, etc. |
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| μὴ | nothing |
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Parse: Adverb Root: μή Sense: no, not lest. |
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| εἴπω | shall I say |
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Parse: Verb, Aorist Subjunctive Active, 1st Person Singular Root: λέγω Sense: to speak, say. |
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| ὑμῖν | to you |
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Parse: Personal / Possessive Pronoun, Dative 2nd Person Plural Root: σύ Sense: you. |
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| ἐπαινέσω | Shall I praise |
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Parse: Verb, Aorist Subjunctive Active, 1st Person Singular Root: ἐπαινέω Sense: to approve, to praise. |
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| τούτῳ | this |
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Parse: Demonstrative Pronoun, Dative Neuter Singular Root: οὗτος Sense: this. |
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| ἐπαινῶ | I praise [you] |
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Parse: Verb, Present Indicative Active, 1st Person Singular Root: ἐπαινέω Sense: to approve, to praise. |
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Greek Commentary for 1 Corinthians 11:22
(Μη γαρ οικιας ουκ εχετε Mē gar oikias ouk echete̱) The double negative (μηουκ mē̇̇ouk) in the single question is like the idiom in 1 Corinthians 9:4. which see. Μη Mē expects a negative answer while ουκ ouk negatives the verb εχετε echete “For do you fail to have houses?” Paul is not approving gluttony and drunkenness but only expressing horror at their sacrilege (despising, καταπρονειτε kataphroneite) of the church of God. [source]
Not those without houses, but those who have nothing, “the have-nots” (Findlay) like 2 Corinthians 8:12, in contrast with οι εχοντες hoi echontes “the haves” (the men of property). What shall I say to you? (τι ειπω υμιν ti eipō humiṉ) Deliberative subjunctive that well expresses Paul‘s bewilderment. [source]
(τι ειπω υμιν ti eipō humiṉ) Deliberative subjunctive that well expresses Paul‘s bewilderment. [source]
Not, that have not houses, but absolutely, the poor. In thus shaming their poorer comrades they imitated the heathen. Xenophon relates of Socrates that, at feasts of contribution, where some brought much and others little, Socrates bade his attendant either to place each small contribution on the table for the common use, or else to distribute his share of the same to each. And so those who had brought much were ashamed not to partake of that which was placed for general use, and not, in return, to place their own stock on the table (“Memorabilia,” iii., 14,1). [source]
Reverse Greek Commentary Search for 1 Corinthians 11:22
Another alternative, that of scorn of God‘s kindness Καταπρονεω Kataphroneō is old verb to think down on (κατα προνεω kataτου πλουτου phroneō) as in Matthew 6:24; 1 Corinthians 11:22. This upstart Jew actually thinks down on God. And then “the riches” (εις μετανοιαν σε αγει tou ploutou) of all that comes from God. [source]
Rev., if he discern not, bringing out the conditional force of the negative particle. The verb primarily means to separate, and hence to make a distinction, discriminate. Rev., in margin, discriminating. Such also is the primary meaning of discern (discernere to part or separate ), so that discerning implies a mental act of discriminating between different things. So Bacon: “Nothing more variable than voices, yet men can likewise discern these personally.” This sense has possibly become a little obscured in popular usage. From this the transition is easy and natural to the sense of doubting, disputing, judging, all of these involving the recognition of differences. The object of the discrimination here referred to, may, I think, be regarded as complex. After Paul's words (1 Corinthians 11:20, 1 Corinthians 11:22), about the degradation of the Lord's Supper, the discrimination between the Lord's body and common food may naturally be contemplated; but further, such discernment of the peculiar significance and sacredness of the Lord's body as shall make him shrink from profanation and shall stimulate him to penitence and faith. [source]
Belonging to God, not to any individual or faction, as this genitive case shows. In 1 Thessalonians 1:1 Paul wrote “the church of the Thessalonians in God” (εν τεωι en theōi), but “the churches of God” in 1 Thessalonians 2:14. See same idiom in 1 Corinthians 10:32; 1 Corinthians 11:16, 1 Corinthians 11:22; 1 Corinthians 15:9; 2 Corinthians 1:1; Galatians 1:13, etc. [source]
If so hungry as all that (1 Corinthians 11:22). [source]
Const. with the church, and comp. 2 Thessalonians 1:1. The phrase “the church in God” is peculiar to the Thessalonian Epistles. Elsewhere “of God” (1 Corinthians 10:32; 1 Corinthians 11:16, 1 Corinthians 11:22; 1 Corinthians 15:9, etc.); “of the saints” (1 Corinthians 14:33). Lightfoot suggests that the word ἐκκλησία can scarcely have been stamped with so definite a Christian meaning in the minds of these recent and early converts as to render the addition “in God the Father,” etc., superfluous. [source]