Bible Strands
1 Corinthians 11:21
For as you eat, each of you goes ahead without sharing his meal. While one remains hungry, another gets drunk.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Paul addresses the Corinthian assembly during their shared meal, correcting their conduct before they recognize it as the Lord’s Supper.
The words — ἕκαστος (hekastos) means "each one," and προλαμβάνει (prolambanei) means "takes first," describing how individuals claim the supper for themselves.
The thread — This self-serving feast parallels the shameless carousing condemned in 2 Peter 2:13 and the selfish shepherding warned against in Jude 1:12.
Why it lands — The text demands that participants share their food so that no one goes hungry while another becomes drunk.
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The Greek words
King James Version
For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunken.
Cross-references
- 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 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 For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you: The Lord Jesus, on the night He was betrayed, took bread,