1 Corinthians 11:21

for, as you eat, each of you tries to secure his own supper first, with the result that one has too little to eat, and another has too much to drink!

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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, as I understand, it is not possible to eat the Lord’s Supper;

22Have you no houses in which you can eat and drink? Or are you trying to show your contempt for the church of God, and to humiliate the poor? What can I say to you? Should I praise you? In this matter I cannot praise you.

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Cross References

1 Corinthians 11:23For I myself received from the Lord the account which I have in turn given to you – how the Lord Jesus, on the very night of his betrayal, took some bread,

Jude 1:12These are the people who are blots on your ‘love-feasts,’ when they feast together and provide without scruple for themselves alone. They are clouds without rain, driven before the winds; they are leafless trees without a vestige of fruit, dead through and through, torn up 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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