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1 Corinthians 11:21

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

KJV

ἕκαστος γὰρ τὸ ἴδιον δεῖπνον προλαμβάνει ἐν τῷ φαγεῖν, καὶ ὃς μὲν πεινᾷ, ὃς δὲ μεθύει.

Greek NT

Unusquisque enim suam cœnam præsumit ad manducandum, et alius quidem esurit, alius autem ebrius est.

Vulgate

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

ASV

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

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

14 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

γάρ
gar
conjunction · 1036×
δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
δεῖπνον
deipnon
noun · 16×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
μέν
men
particle · 177×
μεθύω
methuo
verb · 6×
πεινάω
peinao
verb · 23×
προλαμβάνω
prolambano
verb · 3×
φάγω
phago
verb · 93×
ἐν
en
preposition · 2743×
ἕκαστος
ekastos
adjective · 84×
ἴδιος
idios
adjective · 114×
o
article · 19778×
ὅς
os
relative_pronoun · 1404×

Historic Christian voices

4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

§1329The Lord's Supper, because of its connection with the supper which the Lord took with his disciples on the eve of his Passion and because it anticipates the wedding feast of the Lamb in the heavenly Jerusalem.141 The Breaking of Bread, because Jesus used this rite, part of a Jewish meat when as master of the table he blessed and distributed the bread,142 above all at the Last S…

Cross-references

  • 1Cor 10:16 — The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?
  • 1Cor 11:23 — 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:
  • 1Cor 11:34 — And if any man hunger, let him eat at home; that ye come not together unto condemnation. And the rest will I set in order when I come.
  • 2Pet 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 wi
  • Eph 5:18 — And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
  • 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 withereth, without fruit,