1 Corinthians 11:21 “For as you eat, each of you goes ahead without sharing his meal. While…”

1 Corinthians 11:21

For as you eat, each of you goes ahead without sharing his meal. While one remains hungry, another gets drunk.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunken.

World English Bible

For in your eating each one takes his own supper first. One is hungry, and another is drunken.

American Standard Version

for in your eating each one taketh before other his own supper; and one is hungry, and another is drunken.

Geneva Bible 1599

For euery man when they should eate, taketh his owne supper afore, and one is hungry, and another is drunken.

Darby Translation

For each one in eating takes his own supper before [others], and one is hungry and another drinks to excess.

Young's Literal Translation

for each his own supper doth take before in the eating, and one is hungry, and another is drunk;

Bible in Basic English

For when you take your food, everyone takes his meal before the other; and one has not enough food, and another is the worse for drink.

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Cross references

“in”

1 Corinthians 10:16–18 1 Corinthians 11:23–25

1 Corinthians 10:16–18 · BSB

Is not the cup of blessing that we bless a participation in the blood of Christ? And is not the bread that we break a participation in the body of Christ?

1 Corinthians 11:23–25 · BSB

For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you: The Lord Jesus, on the night He was betrayed, took bread,

“and one”

2 Peter 2:13 Jude 1:12

2 Peter 2:13 · BSB

The harm they will suffer is the wages of their wickedness. They consider it a pleasure to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their deception as they feast with you.

Jude 1:12 · BSB

These men are hidden reefs in your love feasts, shamelessly feasting with you but shepherding only themselves. They are clouds without water, carried along by the wind; fruitless trees in autumn, twice dead after being u…

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

20Now then, when you come together, it is not the Lord’s Supper you eat.

22Don’t you have your own homes in which to eat and drink? Or do you despise the church of God and humiliate those who have nothing? What can I say to you? Shall I praise you for this? No, I will not!

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