1 Corinthians 11:20
When therefore ye come together, ye eat and drink, not as is becoming on the day of our Lord.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord’s supper.
In Context
19For there are to be contentions among you, that the approved among you may be known.
21But, one and another proceedeth to eat his own supper; and one is hungry, and another is drunken.
Cross References
Acts 2:46And they continued daily in the temple, with one soul: and at home, they broke bread and took food rejoicing, and in the simplicity of their heart.
Hebrews 10:25And let us not forsake our meetings, as is the custom of some; but entreat ye one another; and the more, as ye see that day draw near.
Jude 1:12These are they who, in their feastings, riot while polluting themselves, feeding themselves without fear; clouds without rain, moved about by the winds; trees whose fruit hath failed, and they are without fruit, twice dead, and uplifted from their root;
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 →