11 ¹⁷ In giving you these injunctions I must mention a practice which I cannot commend: your meetings tend to do more harm than good. 11 ¹⁸ To begin with, I am told that when you meet as a congregation you fall into sharply divided groups; and I believe there is some truth in it 11 ¹⁹ (for dissensions are necessary if only to show which of your members are sound). 11 ²⁰ The result is that when you meet as a congregation, it is impossible for you to eat the Lord's Supper, 11 ²¹ because each of you is in such a hurry to eat his own, and while one goes hungry another has too much to drink. 11 ²² Have you no homes of your own to eat and drink in? Or are you so contemptuous of the church of God that you shame its poorer members? What am I to say? Can I commend you? On this point, certainly not!