KJV King James Version
For in eating every one taketh before [other] his own supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunken.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
1 Corinthians 11:21
For in eating every one taketh before [other] his own supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunken.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
For as you eat, each of you goes ahead without sharing his meal. While one remains hungry, another gets drunk.
WEB World English Bible
For in your eating each one takes his own supper first. One is hungry, and another is drunken.
ASV American Standard Version
for in your eating each one taketh before other his own supper; and one is hungry, and another is drunken.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
for each his own supper doth take before in the eating, and one is hungry, and another is drunk;
Surrounding context — 1 Corinthians 11
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 before [other] his own supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunken.
22 What? have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or despise ye the church of God, and shame them that have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I praise [you] not.
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.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
ἕκαστοςG1538 · hekastoseachγὰρG1063 · garforτὸG3588 · hothe/this/whoἴδιονG2398 · idiosone's own/privateδεῖπνονG1173 · deipnondinnerπρολαμβάνειG4301 · prolambanōto take beforehandἐνG1722 · enin/on/amongτῷG3588 · hothe/this/whoφαγεῖν,G5315 · phageinto eatκαὶG2532 · kaiandὃςG3739 · hos, hēwhichμὲνG3303 · menon the other handπεινᾷ,G3983 · peinaōto hungerὃςG3739 · hos, hēwhichδὲG1161 · dethenμεθύει.G3184 · methuōto get drunk
Cross-references
2 Peter 2:13And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, [as] they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots [they are] and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;Jude 1:12These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds [they are] without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;1 Corinthians 10:16-18The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?1 Corinthians 11:23-25For 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:
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