1 Corinthians 11:30
For this cause a number of you are feeble and ill, and a number are dead.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.
In Context
31But if we were true judges of ourselves, punishment would not come on us.
Cross References
Numbers 20:12Then the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, Because you had not enough faith in me to keep my name holy before the children of Israel, you will not take this people into the land which I have given them.
Numbers 21:6Then the Lord sent poison-snakes among the people; and their bites were a cause of death to numbers of the people of Israel.
1 Kings 13:21And crying out to the man of God who came from Judah, he said, The Lord says, Because you have gone against the voice of the Lord, and have not done as you were ordered by the Lord,
Psalms 78:30But they were not turned from their desires; and while the food was still in their mouths,
Amos 3:2You only of all the families of the earth have I taken care of: for this reason I will send punishment on you for all your sins.
1 Corinthians 11:32But if punishment does come, it is sent by the Lord, so that we may be safe when the world is judged.
Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 11:24-34
Design of the Lord's Supper. ( a. d. 57.) 23 For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread: 24 And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me. 25 After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me. 26 For as often as… Read the whole commentary →