1 Corinthians 11:21

Some want to eat first before everyone else, leaving others hungry. Still others get drunk.

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

20When you meet together you're not really celebrating the Lord's Supper at all.

22Don't you have your own houses to eat and drink in? Do you look down on God's church, and humiliate those who are poor? What should I tell you? That you're doing really well? I have nothing good to say about you for doing this!

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Cross References

1 Corinthians 11:23For I received from the Lord what I passed on to you: the Lord Jesus on the night he was betrayed took some bread.

Jude 1:12These people spoil your fellowship meals, for they are selfish shepherds that don't have the slightest sense of shame—they only take care of themselves. They're clouds blown along by the wind that bring no rain. They're bare trees without fruit—twice dead, pulled out by the roots.

Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 11:18-23

Profanation of the Lord's Supper. ( a. d. 57.) 17 Now in this that I declare unto you I praise you not, that ye come together not for the better, but for the worse. 18 For first of all, when ye come together in the church, I hear that there be divisions among you; and I partly believe it. 19 For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you. 20 When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord's supper. 21 For in eating every one taketh… Read the whole commentary →

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