1 Corinthians 11:21

19 And indeed, there must be differences among you to show which of you are approved.

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

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

22 Don’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!

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

Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
For as you eat, each of you goes ahead without sharing his meal. While one remains hungry, another gets drunk.
KJV
For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunken.
WEB
For in your eating each one takes his own supper first. One is hungry, and another is drunken.
ASV
for in your eating each one taketh before [other] his own supper; and one is hungry, and another is drunken.
DARBY
For each one in eating takes his *own* supper before [others], and one is hungry and another drinks to excess.
BLB
For in eating, each takes first [his] own supper. And indeed this one is hungry, but that one is drunk.
ÅB
for idet dere spiser, tar hver på forhånd sin egen mat, og den ene er hungrig, og den annen er drukken.
OTB
for når dere spiser, går hver enkelt foran med sitt eget måltid; en forblir sulten mens en annen blir full.
B1930
for idet I eter, tar hver på forhånd sin egen mat, og den ene er hungrig, og den annen er drukken.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Jude 1:12

    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 uprooted.

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  • 2 Peter 2:13

    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.

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  • 1 Corinthians 10:16–18

    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?

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  • 1 Corinthians 11:23–25

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

    Read in context