1 Corinthians 11:21 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²¹ For when the time comes to eat, each of you proceeds to eat your own supper, and one goes hungry and another becomes drunk.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²¹ For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunken.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²¹ For in eating each one [hurries] to get his own supper first [not waiting for the poor], and one goes hungry while another gets drunk.

American Standard Version (1901)

²¹ for in your eating each one taketh before other his own supper; and one is hungry, and another is drunken.

Common English Bible

²¹ Each of you goes ahead and eats a private meal. One person goes hungry while another is drunk.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²¹ For each one first takes his own supper to eat. And as a result, one person is hungry, while another is inebriated.

1 Corinthians 11:21 Cross References

Jude 1:12

These are blots on your love feasts, while they feast with you without fear, feeding themselves. They are waterless clouds carried along by the winds; autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, uprooted;

2 Peter 2:13

suffering the wages of doing wrong. They count it a pleasure to revel in the daytime. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their pleasures while they feast with you.

John 2:10

and said to him, “Everyone serves the good wine first and then the inferior wine after the guests have become drunk. But you have kept the good wine until now.”

1 Corinthians 11:20

When you come together, it is not really to eat the Lord’s supper.

1 Corinthians 11:34

If you are hungry, eat at home, so that when you come together, it will not be for your condemnation. About the other things I will give instructions when I come.