1 Corinthians 11:21

For, each one, taketh beforehand, his own supper, in your eating, and, one, indeed, is hungry, whereas, another, is drinking to excess.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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, therefore, ye come together into one place, it is not to eat, a supper unto the Lord;

22What! have ye not houses for your eating and drinking? or, the assembly of God, do ye despise, and, put to shame them who have nothing? What am I to say to you? Shall I praise you? In this, I praise you not.

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Cross References

1 Corinthians 11:23For, I myself, received from the Lord—that which I also delivered unto you,—how that, the Lord Jesus, in the night in which he was being delivered up, took a loaf,

Jude 1:12These are they—who, in your love-feasts, are hidden rocks, as they fare sumptuously together, fearlessly, themselves, shepherding,—clouds without water, by winds swept along, trees autumnal, fruitless, twice dead, uprooted,

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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