1 Corinthians 11:30

Tyndale New Testament

For this cause many are weake and sicke amoge you and many slepe.

Parallel Translations

English Standard Version
That is why many of you are weak and ill, and some have died.

Geneva Bible (1587)
For this cause many are weake, & sicke among you, and many sleepe.

Christian Standard Bible®
This is why many are sick and ill among you, and many have fallen asleep.

Hebrew Names Version
For this cause many among you are weak and sickly, and not a few sleep.

Darby Translation
On this account many among you [are] weak and infirm, and a good many are fallen asleep.

Easy-to-Read Version
That is why many in your group are sick and weak, and many have died.

Amplified Bible
That [careless and unworthy participation] is the reason why many among you are weak and sick, and a number sleep [in death].

American Standard Version
For this cause many among you are weak and sickly, and not a few sleep.

Berean Standard Bible
That is why many among you are weak and sick, and a number of you have fallen asleep.

Contemporary English Version
That's why many of you are sick and weak and why a lot of others have died.

Complete Jewish Bible
This is why many among you are weak and sick, and some have died!

International Standard Version
That's why so many of you are weak and sick and a considerable number are dying.are falling asleep">[fn]

Etheridge Translation
On this account many among you are sick and infirm, and many who sleep.

Murdock Translation
For this cause, many among you are diseased and sickly, and many sleep.

King James Version (1611)
For this cause many are weake and sickly among you, and many sleepe.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
For this cause many are weake and sicke among you, and many slepe.

English Revised Version
For this cause many among you are weak and sickly, and not a few sleep.

King James Version
For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.

Lexham English Bible
Because of this, many are weak and sick among you, and quite a few have died.

Literal Translation
For this reason many among you are weak and feeble, and many sleep.

New Century Version
That is why many in your group are sick and weak, and some of you have died.

New English Translation
That is why many of you are weak and sick, and quite a few are dead.

New King James Version
For this reason many are weak and sick among you, and many sleep.

New Living Translation
That is why many of you are weak and sick and some have even died.

New Revised Standard
For this reason many of you are weak and ill, and some have died.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For this cause, many among you are weak and sickly; and, not a few, are falling asleep.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Therefore are there many infirm and weak among you: and many sleep.

George Lamsa Translation
This is the reason many are sick and ill among you, and many are dying.

Good News Translation
That is why many of you are sick and weak, and several have died.

Webster's Bible Translation
For this cause many [are] weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.

World English Bible
For this cause many among you are weak and sickly, and not a few sleep.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
For this cause many are sick and weak among you, and many sleep.

Weymouth's New Testament
That is why many among you are sickly and out of health, and why not a few die.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor among you many ben sijke and feble, and manye slepen.

Revised Standard Version
That is why many of you are weak and ill, and some have died.

Update Bible Version
For this cause many among you are weak and sickly, and not a few sleep.

Young's Literal Translation
Because of this, among you many [are] weak and sickly, and sleep do many;

Bible in Basic English
For this cause a number of you are feeble and ill, and a number are dead.

New American Standard Bible
For this reason many among you are weak and sick, and a number are asleep.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Therfore are there so many weake and sicke amoge you, and many slepe.

Mace New Testament (1729)
hence it is, that many are weak and sickly among you, and no small number now sleep in their graves.

New Life Bible
This is why some of you are sick and weak, and some have died.

Simplified Cowboy Version
That's why a lot of you are sickly and weak. Shoot, some have died because of their irreverence.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
For this reason many among you are weak and sick, and a number sleep.

Legacy Standard Bible
For this reason many among you are weak and sick, and a number sleep.

Contextual Overview

²³ That which I delyvered vnto you I receaved of ye lorde. For ye lorde Iesus the same nyght in which he was betrayed toke breed: ²⁴ and thanked and brake and sayde. Take ye and eate ye: this is my body which is broken for you. This do ye in the remembraunce of me. ²⁵ After the same maner he toke the cup when sopper was done sayinge. This cup is the newe testament in my bloude. This do as oft as ye drynke it in the remebraunce of me. ²⁶ For as often as ye shall eate this breed and drynke this cup ye shall shewe the lordes deeth tyll he come. ²⁷ Wherfore whosoevere shall eate of this bred or drynke of the cup vnworthely shalbe giltie of the body and bloud of the Lorde ²⁸ Let a ma therfore examen him silfe and so let hi eate of the breed and drynke of the cup. ²⁹ For he yt eateth or drinketh vnworthely eateth and drynketh his awne damnacion because he maketh no difference of the lordis body. ³⁰ For this cause many are weake and sicke amoge you and many slepe. ³¹ Yf we had truly iudged oure selves we shuld not have bene iudged. ³² But when we are iudged of the lorde we are chastened because we shuld not be daned with the worlde.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

many: 1 Corinthians 11:32, Exodus 15:26, Numbers 20:12, Numbers 20:24, Numbers 21:6-9, 2 Samuel 12:14-18, 1 Kings 13:21-24, Psalms 38:1-8, Psalms 78:30, Psalms 78:31, Psalms 89:31-34, Amos 3:2, Hebrews 12:5-11, Revelation 3:19

sleep: 1 Corinthians 15:51, Acts 13:36, 1 Thessalonians 4:14

Reciprocal: Exodus 19:22 - break 1 Samuel 4:18 - his neck 2 Samuel 6:7 - God smote 1 Kings 13:26 - the man 1 Chronicles 13:10 - there he died Job 33:23 - an interpreter Psalms 39:11 - When Proverbs 11:31 - General Ecclesiastes 5:17 - much Isaiah 38:13 - as a lion Haggai 1:9 - Because Matthew 27:52 - slept Mark 2:5 - sins Mark 5:39 - not dead Luke 7:21 - plagues Acts 7:60 - he fell 1 Corinthians 11:29 - damnation James 5:15 - if he

Cross-References

Luke 1:7
And they had no chylde because that Elizabeth was barre and booth were well stricken in age.

Luke 1:36
And beholde thy cosen Elizabeth she hath also conceaved a sonne in her age. And this is hyr sixte moneth though she be called barren:

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For this cause many are weak and sickly,.... Because of their unworthy participation of the Lord's supper, many in the Corinthian church were attended with bodily infirmities and diseases; either by way of fatherly chastisement and correction in such who were truly the Lord's people, though they had behaved unworthily; or by way of punishment to such who were not, and had sinned very grossly:

and many sleep; that is, die a corporeal death, which is often in Scripture signified by sleep, and frequently used of the saints, and their death, and may intend and include some of them here; for though the Lord might resent so far their unworthy conduct and behaviour at his table, as to remove them out of this world by death, yet their souls may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For this cause - On account of the improper manner of celebrating the Lord’s Supper; see 1 Corinthians 11:21.

Many are weak - (ἀσθενεῖς astheneis). Evidently referring to prevailing bodily sickness and disease. This is the natural and obvious interpretation of this passage. The sense clearly is, that God had sent among them bodily distempers as an expression of the divine displeasure and judgment for their improper mode of celebrating the Lord’s Supper. That it was not uncommon in those times for God in an extraordinary manner to punish people with calamity, sickness, or death for their sins is evident from the New Testament; see the 1 Corinthians 5:5 note; Acts 5:1-10; Acts 13:11 notes; 1 Timothy 1:20 note; and perhaps 1 John 5:16 note; and James 5:14-15 notes. It may possibly have been the case that the intemperance and gluttony which prevailed on these occasions was the direct cause of no small part of the bodily disease which prevailed, and which in some cases terminated in death.

And many sleep - Have died. The death of Christians in the Scriptures is commonly represented under the image of “sleep;” Dan, 1 Corinthians 12:2; John 11:11-12; 1 Corinthians 15:51; 1Th 4:14; 1 Thessalonians 5:10. Perhaps it may be implied by the use of this mild term here, instead of the harsher word “death,” that these were true Christians. This sentiment is in accordance with all that Paul states in regard to the church at Corinth. Notwithstanding all their irregularities, he does not deny that they were sincere Christians, and all his appeals and reasonings proceed on that supposition, though there was among them much ignorance and irregularity. God often visits his own people with trial; and though they are his children, yet this does not exempt them from affliction and discipline on account of their imperfections, errors, and sins. The “practical lesson” taught by this is, that Christians should serve God with purity; that they should avoid sin in every form; and that the commission of sin will expose them, as well as others, to the divine displeasure. The reason why this judgment was inflicted on the Corinthians was, that there might be a suitable impression made of the holy nature of that ordinance, and that Christians might be led to observe it in a proper manner. If it be asked whether God ever visits his people now with his displeasure for their improper manner of observing this ordinance, we may reply:

1. That we have no reason to suppose that he inflicts “bodily” diseases and corporeal punishments on account of it. But,
2. There is no reason to doubt that the improper observance of the Lord’s Supper, like the improper observance of any other religious duty, will be followed with the expression of God’s displeasure, and with a spiritual blightling on the soul. This may be evinced in the following modes:
1. In hardening the heart by an improper familiarity with the most sacred and solemn ordinances of religion.
2. Increased coldness and deadness in the service of God. If the ordinances of the gospel are not the means of making us better, they are the means of making us worse.
3. The loss of the favor of God, or of those pure, and spiritual, and elevated joys which we might have obtained by a proper observance of the ordinance.

There is no reason to doubt that God may make it the occasion of manifesting his displeasure. It may be followed by a lack of spiritual comfort and peace; by a loss of communion with God; and by a withholding of those comforts from the soul which might have been enjoyed, and which are imparted to those who observe it in a proper manner. The general principle is, that an improper discharge of any duty will expose us to his displeasure, and to the certain loss of all those favors which might have resulted from a proper discharge of the duty, and to the tokens of the divine displeasure. And this is as true of prayer, or of any other religious duty, as of an improper observance of the Lord’s Supper.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 30. For this cause — That they partook of this sacred ordinance without discerning the Lord's body; many are weak and sickly: it is hard to say whether these words refer to the consequences of their own intemperance or to some extraordinary disorders inflicted immediately by God himself. That there were disorders of the most reprehensible kind among these people at this sacred supper, the preceding verses sufficiently point out; and after such excesses, many might be weak and sickly among them, and many might sleep, i.e. die; for continual experience shows us that many fall victims to their own intemperance. How ever, acting as they did in this solemn and awful sacrament, they might have "provoked God to plague them with divers diseases and sundry kinds of death." Communion service.