1 Corinthians 11:26
For every time that you eat this bread and drink from the cup, you are proclaiming the Lord's death--until He returns.
Weymouth NT (1912)
In The King James Version
For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord’s death till he come.
In Context
Cross References
John 14:3And if I go and make ready a place for you, I will return and take you to be with me, that where I am you also may be.
Acts 1:11who said, "Galilaeans, why stand looking into the sky? This same Jesus who has been taken up from you into Heaven will come in just the same way as you have seen Him going into Heaven."
1 Corinthians 15:23But this will happen to each in the right order--Christ having been the first to rise, and afterwards Christ's people rising at His return.
2 Thessalonians 1:10when He comes on that day to be glorified in His people and to be wondered at among all who have believed, including you--because you believed the testimony which we brought for your acceptance.
Hebrews 9:28so the Christ also, having been once offered in sacrifice in order that He might bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, separated from sin, to those who are eagerly expecting Him, to make their salvation complete.
1 John 2:28And now, dear children, continue in union with Him; so that, if He re-appears, we may have perfect confidence, and may not shrink away in shame from His presence at His Coming.
Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 11:24-34
Design of the Lord's Supper. ( a. d. 57.) 23 For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread: 24 And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me. 25 After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me. 26 For as often as… Read the whole commentary →