1 Corinthians 11:20 So then, when you come together, it is not the Lord's Supper you eat,

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
So then, when you come together, it is not the Lord's Supper you eat,

English Standard Version
When you come together, it is not the Lord’s supper that you eat.

New American Standard Bible
Therefore when you meet together, it is not to eat the Lord's Supper,

King James Bible
When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord's supper.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Therefore, when you come together, it is not really to eat the Lord's Supper.

International Standard Version
When you gather in the same place, it is not to eat the Lord's Supper.

American Standard Version
When therefore ye assemble yourselves together, it is not possible to eat the Lord's supper:

Douay-Rheims Bible
When you come therefore together into one place, it is not now to eat the Lord's supper.

Darby Bible Translation
When ye come therefore together into one place, it is not to eat the Lord's supper.

Young's Literal Translation
ye, then, coming together at the same place -- it is not to eat the Lord's supper;

Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

11:17-22 The apostle rebukes the disorders in their partaking of the Lord's supper. The ordinances of Christ, if they do not make us better, will be apt to make us worse. If the use of them does not mend, it will harden. Upon coming together, they fell into divisions, schisms. Christians may separate from each other's communion, yet be charitable one towards another; they may continue in the same communion, yet be uncharitable. This last is schism, rather than the former. There is a careless and irregular eating of the Lord's supper, which adds to guilt. Many rich Corinthians seem to have acted very wrong at the Lord's table, or at the love-feasts, which took place at the same time as the supper. The rich despised the poor, and ate and drank up the provisions they brought, before the poor were allowed to partake; thus some wanted, while others had more than enough. What should have been a bond of mutual love and affection, was made an instrument of discord and disunion. We should be careful that nothing in our behaviour at the Lord's table, appears to make light of that sacred institution. The Lord's supper is not now made an occasion for gluttony or revelling, but is it not often made the support of self-righteous pride, or a cloak for hypocrisy? Let us never rest in the outward forms of worship; but look to our hearts.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

20. When … therefore—Resuming the thread of discourse from 1Co 11:18.

this is not to—rather, "there is no such thing as eating the Lord's Supper"; it is not possible where each is greedily intent only on devouring "HIS OWN supper," and some are excluded altogether, not having been waited for (1Co 11:33), where some are "drunken," while others are "hungry" (1Co 11:21). The love-feast usually preceded the Lord's Supper (as eating the Passover came before the Lord's Supper at the first institution of the latter). It was a club-feast, where each brought his portion, and the rich, extra portions for the poor; from it the bread and wine were taken for the Eucharist; and it was at it that the excesses took place, which made a true celebration of the Lord's Supper during or after it, with true discernment of its solemnity, out of the question.