1 Corinthians 11:22

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

²¹ For as you eat, each of you goes ahead without sharing his meal. While one remains hungry, another gets drunk.

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,

²⁴ and when He had given thanks, He broke it and said, “This is My body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of Me.”

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.

Compare

BSB: 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!
KJV: 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.
WEB: 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 enough? What shall I tell you? Shall I praise you? In this I don’t praise you.
ASV: What, have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or despise ye the church of God, and put them to shame that have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you? In this I praise you not.
DARBY: Have ye not then houses for eating and drinking? or do ye despise the assembly of God, and put to shame them who have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you? In this [point] I do not praise.
BLB: What! Have you⁺ no houses in which to eat and to drink? Or do you⁺ despise the church of God and put to shame those not having? What shall I say to you⁺? Shall I praise you⁺? In this I do not praise [you]!

ÅB: Har dere da ikke hus til å spise og drikke i? eller forakter dere Guds menighet og vanærer dem som intet har? Hva skal jeg si til dere? skal jeg rose dere? I dette roser jeg dere ikke.
OTB: Hva! Har dere ikke hjem til å spise og drikke i? Eller forakter dere Guds menighet og ydmyker dem som ikke har noe? Hva skal jeg si til dere? Skal jeg rose dere? I denne saken roser jeg dere ikke.
B1930: Har I da ikke hus til å ete og drikke i? eller forakter I Guds menighet og vanærer dem som intet har? Hvad skal jeg si til eder? skal jeg rose eder? I dette roser jeg eder ikke.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Proverbs 17:5
He who mocks the poor insults their Maker; whoever gloats over calamity will not go unpunished.
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James 2:5–6
Listen, my beloved brothers: Has not God chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith and to inherit the kingdom He promised those who love Him?
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Acts 20:28
Keep watch over yourselves and the entire flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God, which He purchased with His own blood.
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1 Corinthians 10:32
Do not become a stumbling block, whether to Jews or Greeks or the church of God—
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1 Timothy 3:15
in case I am delayed, so that you will know how each one must conduct himself in God’s household, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.
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1 Corinthians 11:17
In the following instructions I have no praise to offer, because your gatherings do more harm than good.
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1 Timothy 3:5
For if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how can he care for the church of God?
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1 Corinthians 11:2
Now I commend you for remembering me in everything and for maintaining the traditions, just as I passed them on to you.
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