²² What, don't you have houses to eat and to drink in? Or do you despise God's assembly, and put them to shame who don't have? What shall I tell you? Shall I praise you? In this I don't praise you.

³² Give no occasions for stumbling, either to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the assembly of God;

⁵ Whoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker. He who is glad at calamity shall not be unpunished.

²⁸ Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and{TR, NU omit "the Lord and"} God which he purchased with his own blood.

² Now I praise you, brothers, that you remember me in all things, and hold firm the traditions, even as I delivered them to you.

¹⁷ But in giving you this command, I don't praise you, that you come together not for the better but for the worse.

⁵ (but if a man doesn't know how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the assembly of God?)

¹⁵ but if I wait long, that you may know how men ought to behave themselves in the house of God, which is the assembly of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.

⁵ Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn't God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?

⁶ But you have dishonored the poor man. Don't the rich oppress you, and personally drag you before the courts?

⁹ For I am the least of the apostles, who is not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the assembly of God.