1 Corinthians 11:21

Modern

For as you eat, each of you goes ahead without sharing his meal. While one remains hungry, another gets drunk.

Traditional

For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunken.

Literal

For in eating, each takes first his own supper. And indeed this one is hungry, but that one is drunk.

Latin

Unusquisque enim suam cœnam præsumit ad manducandum, et alius quidem esurit, alius autem ebrius est.

Greek

English

For as you eat, each of you goes ahead without sharing his meal. While one remains hungry, another gets drunk.

Some people cared more about eating their own dinner than about the Lord's Supper.

Paul discusses issues with how the Corinthians interact with each other and with the Lord during the Lord's Supper.

Theme notes and profiles

2 Peter 2:13
The harm they will suffer is the wages of their wickedness. They consider it a pleasure to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their deception as they feast with you.
Jude 1:12
These men are hidden reefs in your love feasts, shamelessly feasting with you but shepherding only themselves. They are clouds without water, carried along by the wind; fruitless trees in autumn, twice dead after being uprooted.
1 Corinthians 10:16–18
Is not the cup of blessing that we bless a participation in the blood of Christ? And is not the bread that we break a participation in the body of Christ?
1 Corinthians 11:23–25
For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you: The Lord Jesus, on the night He was betrayed, took bread,