1 Corinthians 11:20

Myles Coverdale Bible

Now whan ye come together, the LORDES supper can not be kepte. For whan it shulde be kepte, euery ma taketh his awne supper afore.

Parallel Translations

Simplified Cowboy Version
Y'all are not getting together for the Lord's Supper, you just use that as an excuse to eat a good meal.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Therefore when you meet together, it is not to eat the Lord's Supper,

Legacy Standard Bible
Therefore when you meet together in the same place, it is not to eat the Lord's Supper,

Bible in Basic English
But now, when you come together, it is not possible to take the holy meal of the Lord:

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

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

World English Bible
When therefore you assemble yourselves together, it is not possible to eat the Lord's supper.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Therefore when ye come together into one place, it is not eating the Lord's supper.

Weymouth's New Testament
When, however, you meet in one place, there is no eating the Supper of the Lord;

King James Version (1611)
When yee come together therefore into one place, this is not to eate the Lords Supper.

Literal Translation
Then you coming together into one place, it is not to eat the Lord's supper.

Mace New Testament (1729)
when you thus assemble therefore, this is not eating the Lord's supper.

THE MESSAGE
And then I find that you bring your divisions to worship—you come together, and instead of eating the Lord's Supper, you bring in a lot of food from the outside and make pigs of yourselves. Some are left out, and go home hungry. Others have to be carried out, too drunk to walk. I can't believe it! Don't you have your own homes to eat and drink in? Why would you stoop to desecrating God's church? Why would you actually shame God's poor? I never would have believed you would stoop to this. And I'm not going to stand by and say nothing.

Amplified Bible
So when you meet together, 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:

Revised Standard Version
When you meet together, it is not the Lord's supper that you eat.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
When ye come to gedder a man cannot eate the lordes supper. For every man begynneth a fore to eate his awne supper.

Update Bible Version
When therefore you assemble yourselves together, it is not possible to eat the Lord's supper:

Webster's Bible Translation
When therefore ye come together in one place, [this] 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;

New Century Version
When you come together, you are not really eating the Lord's Supper.

New English Translation
Now when you come together at the same place, you are not really eating the Lord's Supper.

Berean Standard Bible
Now then, when you come together, it is not the Lord's Supper you eat.

Contemporary English Version
When you meet together, you don't really celebrate the Lord's Supper.

Complete Jewish Bible
Thus, when you gather together, it is not to eat a meal of the Lord;

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

Geneva Bible (1587)
When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eate the Lords Supper.

George Lamsa Translation
When you gather together therefore, you do not eat and drink as is appropriate on the day of our LORD.

Hebrew Names Version
When therefore you assemble yourselves together, it is not possible 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.

Etheridge Translation
When then you are assembled, not as befitteth the day of the Lord you eat and drink,

Murdock Translation
When therefore ye come together, ye eat and drink, not as is becoming on the day of our Lord.

New King James Version
Therefore when you come together in one place, it is not to eat the Lord's Supper.

New Living Translation
When you meet together, you are not really interested in the Lord's Supper.

New Life Bible
When you gather together for your meetings, it is not to eat the Lord's supper.

English Revised Version
When therefore ye assemble yourselves together, it is not possible to eat the Lord’s supper:

New Revised Standard
When you come together, it is not really to eat the Lord's supper.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
When, therefore, ye come together into one place, it is not to eat, a supper unto the Lord;

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

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

Lexham English Bible
Therefore, when you come together in the same place, it is not to eat the Lord's supper.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
When ye come together therfore into one place, you can not eate the Lordes supper:

Easy-to-Read Version
When you all come together, it is not really the Lord's Supper you are eating.

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

Good News Translation
When you meet together as a group, it is not the Lord's Supper that you eat.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor whanne ye comen togidere in to oon, now it is not to ete the Lordis soper;

Contextual Overview

¹⁷ But this must I warne you of: I commende it not, that ye come together not after a better maner but after a worse. ¹⁸ First, whan ye come together in the congregacion, I heare, that there are discensions amonge you, and I partly beleue it. ¹⁹ For there must be sectes amonge you, that they which are perfecte amonge you, mighte be knowne. ²⁰ Now whan ye come together, the LORDES supper can not be kepte. For whan it shulde be kepte, euery ma taketh his awne supper afore. ²¹ And one is hogrie, another is dronke. Haue ye not houses to eate and drynke in? ²² Or despyse ye ye cogregacion of God, and shame them that haue not? What shal I saye vnto you? Shal I prayse you? in this prayse I you not.

Bible Verse Review
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this is not to eat: or, ye cannot eat, 1 Corinthians 11:20

Reciprocal: Hosea 8:13 - but Zechariah 7:6 - did not ye eat for Acts 2:42 - in breaking Acts 2:46 - from house to house Acts 20:7 - to break 1 Corinthians 11:17 - that ye Hebrews 10:25 - forsaking 2 Peter 2:13 - while

Cross-References

Luke 3:35
Which was the sonne of Serug. Which was the sonne of Regu. Which was the sonne of Peleg. Which was the sonne of Eber. Which was the sonne of Salah.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

When ye come together therefore into one place,.... Though

επι το αυτο does not signify so much the unity of the place, as of the persons meeting together, and their conjunction; so the phrase is used by the Septuagint, in Deuteronomy 25:11, yet it supposes a place where the church were wont to assemble for divine worship;

this is not to eat the Lord's supper: their view in coming together was not so much to celebrate the supper of the Lord, as to partake of their own supper, which was either the paschal supper, or something like it; which many of them "judaizing" observed before the Lord's supper, in imitation of Christ, as they pretended, who first ate the passover, and then instituted the supper. Now there being a great deal of good eating and drinking in this ante-supper, many of them came together for no other end but to partake of that, at least this was their chief view, and not the Lord's supper; or when they did meet together on this account, it was in such an irregular and disorderly manner, and they confounded these suppers together, and behaved so ill at them, and ate the Lord's supper so unworthily, that it could not be rightly called eating of it; or when they had eaten their ante-supper in such an indecent way, neither staying for one another, nor keeping within the bounds of temperance and sobriety; at least having indulged their carnal appetites to such a degree, and raised themselves to such a pitch of gaiety and cheerfulness; it was not fit for them to eat the Lord's supper, to go from such a full meal to the table of the Lord. This was called the Lord's supper, because he was the author of it; and he is the subject of it; and for him, the remembrance of him, it is appointed, kept up, and continued. The Syriac version understands it of the Lord's day, and reads it thus, "when therefore ye meet together, not as is fit for", or becomes, ליומה דמרן, "the day of our Lord, do ye eat and drink".

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

When ye come together therefore ... - When you are assembled as a church, compare Hebrews 10:25, and see the note on Acts 2:1. Christians were constantly in the habit of assembling for public worship. It is probable that at this early period all the Christians in Corinth were accustomed to meet in the same place. The apostle here particularly refers to their “assembling” to observe the ordinance of the Lord’s Supper. At that early period it is probable that this was done on every Lord’s Day.

This is not ... - Margin, “Ye cannot eat.” The meaning of this expression seems to be this. “Though you come together professedly to worship God, and to partake of the Lord’s Supper, yet this cannot be the real design which you have in view. It cannot be that such practices as are allowed among you can be a part of the celebration of that supper, or consistent with it. Your greediness 1 Corinthians 11:21; your intemperance 1 Corinthians 11:21; your partaking of the food separately and not in common, cannot be a celebration of the Lord’s Supper. Whatever, therefore, you may profess to be engaged in, yet really and truly you are not celebrating the Lord’s Supper.”

The Lord’s supper - That which the Lord Jesus instituted to commemorate his death. It is called “the Lord’s,” because it is his appointment, and is in honor of him; it is called “supper” (δεῖπνον deipnon), because the word denotes the evening repast; it was instituted in the evening; and it is evidently most proper that it should be observed in the after part of the day. With most churches the time is improperly changed to the morning - a custom which has no sanction in the New Testament; and which is a departure from the very idea of a supper.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 20. This is not to eat the Lord's Supper. — They did not come together to eat the Lord's Supper exclusively, which they should have done, and not have made it a part of an ordinary meal.