1 Corinthians 11:21

For when you eat, some of you eat your own supper without waiting for others. So one person is hungry while another gets drunk.

Text-Critical English NT

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

20Now when you come together, it is not to eat the Lord's supper.

22What! Do you not have houses for eating and drinking? Or do you despise the church of God and put to shame those who do not have anything? What should I say to you? Should I praise you for this? I do not praise you.

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Cross References

1 Corinthians 11:23For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night in which he was betrayed took bread,

Jude 1:12These men are hidden reefs at your love feasts, feasting among you without fear as shepherds feeding only themselves. They are clouds without water, carried along by winds; fruitless trees in late autumn, twice dead, pulled 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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