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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Give none offence, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God: even as I please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Now in this that I declare unto you I praise you not, that ye come together not for the better, but for the worse. It is a very bad state of things when we meet for worship, and separate without any improvement, or, like these Corinthians, “come together, not for the better, but for the worse.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For first of all, when ye come together in the church, I hear that there be divisions among you; and I partly believe it. It was very gracious and kind on the apostle’s part to put it so mildly, and he sets us the example of not believing anything against our brethren too quickly: “I partly believe it.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For first of all, when ye come together in the church, I hear that there be divisions among you; and I partly believe it. For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you. When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord’s supper. For in eating every one taketh before...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you. When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord’s supper. For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunken. They seem to have regarded it as a common feast, to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord’s supper. Merely meeting together, each person bringing his or her own portion of bread and wine, and each one eating the provided portion, was not celebrating the Lord’s supper.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord’s supper. For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunken. They seem to have brought their own provisions to the assembly, and to have made a feast thereof, and they even thought that was an observance of the Lord’s...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord’s supper. For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper, and one is hungry, and another is drunken. They had such low notions of the communion that they seemed to think that, if they ate together, each one bringing his own provision, they would be celebrating...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord’s supper. For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunken. These Corinthians had fallen into a very queer state. I do not think that any Baptist Church that I have ever known of has acted in this fashion; but when...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunken. Bad as some professing Christians are even now, they are not so bad as these Corinthians were. One was hungry, and another was drunken, because they had turned the holy feast into a kind of banquet of a most disorderly sort. There was nothing in...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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 these? I praise you not. No doubt they hoped to be praised, and expected that they had done everything in the right way; perhaps, they even believed that they were acting under the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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. The Lord’s supper is not to be made an opportunity for eating and drinking in disorderly self-enjoyment. It is a hallowed and holy institution, setting forth the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
What? have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or despise ye the church of God, — “Do you think that, as a nominally Christian assembly, you are constituted merely that you may eat and drink? ‘What? have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or despise ye the church of God,’” — 1Co_11:22. And shame them that have not? “Making the poor who come...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
What shall I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I praise you not. For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, — “And therefore you ought not to have gone astray. I told you how to observe this ordinance, so you have wilfully erred. This is what I delivered unto you,” —
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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. They may not have meant to do so ill, but they had fallen into all sorts of disorder, and Paul therefore first rebuked them, and then explained to them the right...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
What? have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? There is your proper place if you want a meal. Go home, and eat and drink; do not come to the sanctuary for such a purpose: “Have ye not houses to eat and to drink in?” 1Co_11:22. 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...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread: and when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me. These are the words of the Lord Jesus himself, and therefore they come...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread: and when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me. After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you,— That is the right kind of teaching which a man first receives from God, and then delivers to the people. Nothing is of authority in the Christian ministry unless we can say of it, “I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you,” — 1Co_11:23. That the Lord...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread: and when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me. After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye...