What Does 1 Corinthians 11:22 Mean in the King James?
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 analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The assembly is despised when those with nothing are shamed in the very place meant to gather them.
THE MEANING
This verse speaks wherever private abundance enters a shared gathering while people without food are left exposed. The way those with less are treated reveals whether the assembly honors God. The question “shall I praise you?” refuses to call that arrangement worthy of praise.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that a gathering can honor God while its plenty leaves people with nothing ashamed.
THE ROOT
ἐκκλησία
ekklesia
GROWS FROM
καλ (kal-, from καλέω, kaleō)
Call, summon.
“church” in this verse is ekklesia. The word means assembly, and its word-family carries the image of people summoned together. Contempt for the assembly becomes visible when people who have nothing are shamed within that gathered body.
ALSO GROWS
kaleō: Call, summon.
καλέω
Its shared word-family links the assembly to the act of gathering people in.
klēsis: Calling, invitation.
κλῆσις
An invitation gathers people into a shared place, making exclusion at the table especially revealing.
ekklesia: Assembly, congregation.
ἐκκλησία
The verse names the gathered community whose treatment of those without exposes its character.
καταφρονέω
kataphroneō
GROWS FROM
φρον
phron
Think, set one’s mind.
“despise” in this verse is kataphroneō. The word carries the sense of thinking down on someone, regarding them as beneath consideration. Here that inward ranking takes visible form in how the gathering treats those who have nothing.
ALSO GROWS
phroneō: Think, be minded.
φρονέω
It shows the mental posture beneath the contempt named in the verse.
phronēma: Mindset, way of thinking.
φρόνημα
The verse exposes a mindset through its treatment of others.
kataphroneō: Look down on, despise.
καταφρονέω
The word describes the regard that makes the assembly’s unequal treatment possible.
καταισχύνω
kataischunō
GROWS FROM
αἰσχύν
aischyn
Shame, disgrace.
The verb means to put someone to shame, so the injury lands on those without as a public disgrace. The gathering’s conduct exposes them instead of making room for them.
ALSO GROWS
aischynē: Shame, disgrace.
αἰσχύνη
It names the humiliation imposed on those who have nothing.
aischros: Shameful, disgraceful.
αἰσχρός
It shares the root’s concern with what brings disgrace into view.
THE PATTERN
A gathering’s claim to belong to God is revealed by whether those with less are welcomed or shamed at its table.
If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother: But thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need, in that which he wanteth.And all that believed were together, and had all things common; And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need.For if there come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring, in goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment; And ye have respect to him that weareth the gay clothing, and say unto him, Sit thou here in a good place; and say to the poor, Stand thou there, or sit here under my footstool: Are ye not then partial in yourselves, and are become judges of evil thoughts?THE THREAD
But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind:The word “call” (καλέω, kaleō) shares a word-family with “assembly” (ἐκκλησία, ekklēsia), the gathering of people. Jesus names the poor among those called to the feast, showing whose presence gives the table its shape.
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