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King James Version

1 Corinthians 11:26

For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Eucharist (the Lord's Supp;   Jesus Continued;   Memorial;   Thompson Chain Reference - Memory Spiritual;   The Topic Concordance - Blood;   Body;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Atonement, the;   Communion of the Lord's Supper;   Death of Christ, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Feasts;   Lord's Supper;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Bread;   Church;   Lord's supper;   Passover;   Sacrament;   Worship;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Church, the;   Corinthians, First and Second, Theology of;   Death of Christ;   Drink;   Lord's Supper, the;   Worship;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Lord's Supper;   Worship of God;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Lord's Supper;   Luke, Gospel According to;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Lord's Supper;   Shewbread;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Bread of the Presence;   Church;   Cup;   Exodus;   Gestures;   Jesus, Life and Ministry of;   Lord;   Love Feast;   Memorial;   Ordinances;   Romans, Book of;   The Last Supper;   The Lord's Supper;   Worship;   1 Corinthians;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Church;   Eucharist;   Love Feast;   Paul the Apostle;   Sacraments;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Atonement;   Atonement (2);   Brotherly Love;   Church (2);   Cup ;   Death of Christ;   Doctrines;   Eucharist;   Kingdom Kingdom of God;   Lord's Supper (Ii);   Lord's Supper. (I.);   Love-Feast;   Meals;   Mediation Mediator;   Mediator;   Mourning;   Parousia;   Passover (I.);   Passover (Ii. in Relation to Lord's Supper).;   Paul (2);   River (2);   Sacraments;   Worship;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Cup;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Passover;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Lord (2);   Smith Bible Dictionary - Lord's Supper;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Supper;   Synagogue;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Jesus of Nazareth;   Law of Moses, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Agape;   Christ, Offices of;   Church Government;   Lord's Supper (Eucharist);   Sacraments;   Sign;   Worship;  

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
This means that every time you eat this bread and drink this cup, you are telling others about the Lord's death until he comes again.
Revised Standard Version
For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
For as often as ye shall eate this breed and drynke this cup ye shall shewe the lordes deeth tyll he come.
Hebrew Names Version
For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes.
International Standard Version
For as often as you eat this bread and drink from this cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes.John 14:3; 21:22; Acts 1:11; 1 Corinthians 4:5; 15:23; 1 Thessalonians 4:16; 2 Thessalonians 1:10; Jude 1:14; Revelation 1:7;">[xr]
New American Standard Bible
For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until He comes.
New Century Version
Every time you eat this bread and drink this cup you are telling others about the Lord's death until he comes.
Update Bible Version
For as often as you eat this bread, and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes.
Webster's Bible Translation
For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do show the Lord's death till he shall come.
English Standard Version
For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes.
World English Bible
For as often as you eat this bread, and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Therefore as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye shew forth the Lord's death, till he come.
Weymouth's New Testament
For every time that you eat this bread and drink from the cup, you are proclaiming the Lord's death--until He returns.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For as ofte as ye schulen ete this breed, and schulen drynke the cuppe, ye schulen telle the deth of the Lord, til that he come.
English Revised Version
For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink the cup, ye proclaim the Lord’s death till he come.
Berean Standard Bible
For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until He comes.
Contemporary English Version
The Lord meant that when you eat this bread and drink from this cup, you tell about his death until he comes.
Amplified Bible
For every time you eat this bread and drink this cup, you are [symbolically] proclaiming [the fact of] the Lord's death until He comes [again].
American Standard Version
For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink the cup, ye proclaim the Lord's death till he come.
Bible in Basic English
For whenever you take the bread and the cup you give witness to the Lord's death till he comes.
Complete Jewish Bible
For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the death of the Lord, until he comes.
Darby Translation
For as often as ye shall eat this bread, and drink the cup, ye announce the death of the Lord, until he come.
Etheridge Translation
For whensoever you eat this bread, and drink this cup, the death of our Lord you commemorate until his advent.
Murdock Translation
For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye commemorate the death of our Lord, until his advent.
King James Version (1611)
For as often as ye eate this bread, and drinke this cup, yee doe shew the Lords death till he come.
New Living Translation
For every time you eat this bread and drink this cup, you are announcing the Lord's death until he comes again.
New Life Bible
Every time you eat this bread and drink from this cup you are telling of the Lord's death until He comes again.
New Revised Standard
For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes.
Geneva Bible (1587)
For as often as ye shall eate this bread, and drinke this cup, ye shewe the Lords death till hee come.
George Lamsa Translation
For whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup, you commemorate our LORD''s death until he come.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For, as often as ye may be eating this loaf, and, the cup, may be drinking, The death of the Lord, do ye announce, until he come.
Douay-Rheims Bible
For as often as you shall eat this bread and drink the chalice, you shall shew the death of the Lord, until he come.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
For as often as ye shal eate this bread, and drynke this cup, ye shall shewe the Lordes death tyll he come.
Good News Translation
This means that every time you eat this bread and drink from this cup you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes.
Christian Standard Bible®
For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.
Lexham English Bible
For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes.
Literal Translation
For as often as you may eat this bread, and drink this cup, you solemnly proclaim the death of the Lord, until He shall come.
Young's Literal Translation
for as often as ye may eat this bread, and this cup may drink, the death of the Lord ye do shew forth -- till he may come;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For as oft as ye shal eate of this bred, & drynke of this cuppe, ye shal shewe the LORDES death, vntyll he come.
Mace New Testament (1729)
As often then as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye make a declaration of the Lord's death till he come.
New English Translation
For every time you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes.
New King James Version
For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord's death till He comes.
Simplified Cowboy Version
Every single time you eat bread or drink wine, you are remembering what Jesus did and announcing to the world that you eagerly wait for him to ride back over the hill to get us.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until He comes.
Legacy Standard Bible
For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the death of the Lord until He comes.

Contextual Overview

23 For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, that the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread: 24 And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me. 25 After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, this cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me. 26 For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come. 27 Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. 28 But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup. 29 For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body. 30 For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep. 31 For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged. 32 But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

ye do show: or, shew ye

till: 1 Corinthians 4:5, 1 Corinthians 15:23, John 14:3, John 21:22, Acts 1:11, 1 Thessalonians 4:16, 2 Thessalonians 1:10, 2 Thessalonians 2:2, 2 Thessalonians 2:3, Hebrews 9:28, 2 Peter 3:10, 1 John 2:28, Jude 1:14, Revelation 1:7, Revelation 20:11, Revelation 20:12, Revelation 22:20

Reciprocal: Exodus 29:33 - eat those Numbers 6:15 - drink Psalms 45:17 - I will Zechariah 7:6 - did not ye eat for Matthew 26:26 - Take 1 Corinthians 10:17 - that Galatians 3:1 - Jesus Christ Revelation 2:25 - till

Cross-References

Genesis 11:4
And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Genesis 11:5
And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
Genesis 11:20
And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug:
Genesis 11:24
And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah:
Genesis 11:26
And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
Genesis 11:27
Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.
Joshua 24:2
And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood in old time, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nachor: and they served other gods.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup,.... Not any bread, or any cup: but what is ate and drank in an ordinance way, and according to the institution and appointment of Christ, and with a view to the end proposed by him; and though there is no set fixed time for the administration of this ordinance, yet this phrase seems to suggest that it should be often: and very plainly signifies, that the bread and wine, after the blessing or thanksgiving, remain such, and are not converted into the real body and blood of Christ; but are only outward elements representing these to faith;

ye do show the Lord's death till he come; or rather, as it may be rendered in the imperative mood, as an exhortation, direction or command, "show ye the Lord's death till he come"; since everyone that eats and drinks at the Lord's table does not show forth his death, which is the great end to be answered by it; for the design of the institution of it is to declare that Christ died for the sins of his people: to represent him as crucified; to set forth the manner of his sufferings and death, by having his body wounded, bruised, and broken, and his blood shed; to express the blessings and benefits which come by his death, and his people's faith of interest in them; and to show their sense of gratitude, and declare their thankfulness for them; and all this, "till he come"; which shows the continuance of this ordinance, which is to last till Christ's second coming, where the carnal ordinances of the former dispensation were shaken and removed; and also the continuance of Gospel ministers to the end of the world, to administer it, and of churches to whom it is to be administered: this assures of the certainty of Christ's second coming; as it leads back to his coming in the flesh, suffering and dying in our stead, and thereby obtaining redemption for us; it leads forward to expect and believe he will come again, to put us into the full possession of the salvation he is the author of; when there will be no more occasion for this ordinance, nor any other, but all will cease, and God will be all in all. The apostle here refers to a custom used by the Jews in the night of the passover, to show forth the reason of their practice, and that institution to their children; when either u

"the son asked the father, or if the son had not understanding (enough to ask), then the father taught him, saying, how different is this night from all other nights? for in all other nights we eat leavened and unleavened bread, but in this night only unleavened; in all other nights we eat the rest of herbs, but in this night bitter herbs; in all other nights we eat flesh roasted, broiled, and boiled, in this night only roasted; in all other nights we wash once, in this night twice; and as elsewhere w it is added, in all other nights we eat sitting or lying, in this night all of us lie; and according to the capacity of the child, the father teaches him,''

particularly he was to inform him what these several things showed forth, or declared x; as that

"the passover מגיד, "declared", or "showed forth", that the Lord passed over the houses of our fathers in Egypt; the bitter herbs "showed forth", that the Egyptians made the lives of our fathers bitter in Egypt; and the unleavened bread "declared" that they were redeemed; and all these things are called הגדה, "the declaration", or showing forth:''

and there is a treatise called הגדה של פסח, "the showing forth of the passover"; in which, besides the things mentioned, and many others, it is observed y, that it was commanded the Jews לספר, "to declare" the going out of Egypt, and that everyone that diligently declares the going out of Egypt, is praiseworthy: now the apostle observes this end of the Lord's supper, to show forth his death, in opposition to the notion of the "judaizing" Christians at Corinth, who thought of nothing else but the showing forth of the passover, and the declaration of that deliverance and redemption wrought for the people of Israel; whereas the true and only intent of it was to show forth the death of Christ, redemption by him, and the greatness of his love expressed therein, and which is to be continued till his second coming; whereas the time was come when it should "be no more said, the Lord liveth, that brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt", Jeremiah 16:14.

u Misn. Pesach. c. 10. sect. 4. Haggadah Shel. Pesach. p. 5. w Maimon. Chametz Umetzah, c. 8. sect. 2. x Moses Kotsensis Mitzvot Tora prec. aff. 41. y P. 5, 6. Ed. Rittangel. & Seder. Tephillot. Ed. Basil. fol. 243. 1.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For as often - Whenever you do this.

Ye eat this bread - This is a direct and positive refutation of the doctrine of the papists that the bread is changed into the real body of the Lord Jesus. Here it is expressly called “bread” - bread still - bread after the consecration. Before the Saviour instituted the ordinance he took “bread” - it was bread then: it was “bread” which he “blessed” and “broke;” and it was bread when it was given to them; and it was bread when Paul says here that they ate. How then can it be pretended that it is anything else but bread? And what an amazing and astonishing absurdity it is to believe that that bread is changed into the flesh and blood of Jesus Christ (transubstantiation or consubstantiation)!

Ye do show the Lord’s death - You set forth, or exhibit in an impressive manner, the fact that he was put to death; you exhibit the emblems of his broken body and shed blood, and your belief of the fact that he died. This shows that the ordinance was to be so far public as to be a proper showing forth of their belief in the death of the Saviour. It should be public. It is one mode of professing attachment to the Redeemer; and its public observance often has a most impressive effect on those who witness its observance.

Till he come - Until he returns to judge the world. This demonstrates:

(1) That it was the steady belief of the primitive church that the Lord Jesus would return to judge the world; and,

(2) That it was designed that this ordinance should be perpetuated, and observed to the end of time. In every generation, therefore, and in every place where there are Christians, it is to be observed, until the Son of God shall return; and the necessity of its observance shall cease only when the whole body of the redeemed shall be permitted to see their Lord, and there shall be no need of those emblems to remind them of him, for all shall see him as he is.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 26. Ye do show the Lord 's death — As in the passover they showed forth the bondage they had been in, and the redemption they had received from it; so in the eucharist they showed forth the sacrificial death of Christ, and the redemption from sin derived from it.


 
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