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1 Corinthians 11:30
That is why many among you are weak and sick, and a number of you have fallen asleep.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Paul addresses the Corinthian believers during a correction of their Lord’s Supper practice, immediately following his warning about eating and drinking judgment upon oneself. The words — διὰ (dia) = “because of” and τοῦτο (touto) = “this” create a direct causal chain, while ἀσθενεῖς (astheneis) = “weak” and ἄρρωστοι (arrōstoi) = “sick” describe the physical condition of the congregation. The thread — This causal pattern of discipline for covenant failure runs through Revelation 3:19, Exodus 15:26, and Numbers 20:12. Why it lands — The verse demands that readers treat communal worship as a serious spiritual act, requiring honest self-assessment before partaking to avoid divine consequence.
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The Greek words
King James Version
For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.
Cross-references
- Revelation 3:19 Those I love I rebuke and discipline. Therefore be earnest and repent.
- Exodus 15:26 saying, “If you will listen carefully to the voice of the LORD your God, and do what is right in His eyes, and pay attention to His commands, and keep all His statutes, then I will not bring on you any of the diseases I inflicted on the Egyptians. For I am the LORD who heals you.”
- Numbers 20:12 But the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “Because you did not trust Me to show My holiness in the sight of the Israelites, you will not bring this assembly into the land that I have given them.”
- Psalms 38:1 A Psalm of David, for remembrance. O LORD, do not rebuke me in Your anger or discipline me in Your wrath.
- Amos 3:2 “Only you have I known from all the families of the earth; therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.”
- Numbers 20:24 “Aaron will be gathered to his people; he will not enter the land that I have given the Israelites, because both of you rebelled against My command at the waters of Meribah.
- Numbers 21:6 So the LORD sent venomous snakes among the people, and many of the Israelites were bitten and died.
- 2 Samuel 12:14 Nevertheless, because by this deed you have shown utter contempt for the word of the LORD, the son born to you will surely die.”
- 1 Kings 13:21 and the prophet cried out to the man of God who had come from Judah, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Because you have defied the word of the LORD and have not kept the commandment that the LORD your God gave you,
- Psalms 78:30 Yet before they had filled their desire, with the food still in their mouths,