1 Corinthians 11:21 for when you are eating, some of you go ahead with your own private suppers. As a result, one person remains hungry and another gets drunk.

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New International Version
for when you are eating, some of you go ahead with your own private suppers. As a result, one person remains hungry and another gets drunk.

English Standard Version
For in eating, each one goes ahead with his own meal. One goes hungry, another gets drunk.

New American Standard Bible
for in your eating each one takes his own supper first; and one is hungry and another is drunk.

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
For at the meal, each one eats his own supper ahead of others. So one person is hungry while another gets drunk!

International Standard Version
For as you eat, each of you rushes to eat his own supper, and one person goes hungry while another gets drunk.

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

Douay-Rheims Bible
For every one taketh before his own supper to eat. And one indeed is hungry and another is drunk.

Darby Bible Translation
For each one in eating takes his own supper before others, and one is hungry and another drinks to excess.

Young's Literal Translation
for each his own supper doth take before in the eating, and one is hungry, and another is drunk;

Cross References

John 2:10
And said to him, Every man at the beginning does set forth good wine; and when men have well drunk, then that which is worse: but you have kept the good wine until now.

1 Corinthians 11:20
When you come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord's supper.

1 Corinthians 11:34
And if any man hunger, let him eat at home; that you come not together to condemnation. And the rest will I set in order when I come.

2 Peter 2:13
And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;

Jude 1:12
These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit wither, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;

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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

21. one taketh before other—the rich "before" the poor, who had no supper of their own. Instead of "tarrying for one another" (1Co 11:33); hence the precept (1Co 12:21, 25).

his own supper—"His own" belly is his God (Php 3:19); "the Lord's Supper," the spiritual feast, never enters his thoughts.

drunken—The one has more than is good for him, the other less [Bengel].