17 In the following directives I have no praise for you, for your meetings do more harm than good.

17 But in the following instructions I do not commend you, because when you come together it is not for the better but for the worse.

17 But in the following instructions, I cannot praise you. For it sounds as if more harm than good is done when you meet together.

17 Now in giving these instructions I do not praise you, since you come together not for the better but for the worse.

17 In the things I tell you now I do not praise you, because when you come together you do more harm than good.

17 But in giving you this charge, I praise you not, that ye come together not for the better but for the worse.

17 But in prescribing to you on this which I now enter on, I do not praise, namely, that ye come together, not for the better, but for the worse.

17 I have no praise for you as I instruct you in the following matter: When you gather, it results in more harm than good.

17 Now in giving the following instruction I do not praise you, since you come together not for the better but for the worse.

17 Now in the following instructions I do not commend you, because when you come together it is not for the better but for the worse.

17 But in giving this instruction I do not praise you, because you come together not for the better but for the worse.

17 In the following matters, I don’t praise you. Your meetings do more harm than good.

17 But in giving this instruction, I do not praise you, because you come together not for the better but for the worse.