1 Corinthians 11:21

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

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BSBPD

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

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

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

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“for in your eating each one taketh before other his own supper; and one is hungry, and another is drunken.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“for each his own supper doth take before in the eating, and one is hungry, and another is drunk;”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo 1 Corinthians 11:21 — 4 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. 1 Corinthians 10:16Is 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?
  2. 1 Corinthians 11:23For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you: The Lord Jesus, on the night He was betrayed, took bread,
  3. 2 Peter 2:13The 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.
  4. Jude 1:12These 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.

Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

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