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1 Corinthians 11:30

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

KJV

διὰ τοῦτο ἐν ὑμῖν πολλοὶ ἀσθενεῖς καὶ ἄρρωστοι καὶ κοιμῶνται ἱκανοί.

Greek NT

Ideo inter vos multi infirmi et imbecilles, et dormiunt multi.

Vulgate

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

ASV

Therefore are there many infirm and weak among you: and many sleep.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

10 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

διά
dia
preposition · 633×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
κοιμάω
koimao
verb · 18×
οὗτος
outos
demonstrative · 1380×
πολύς
polus
adjective · 412×
ἀσθενής
asthenes
adjective · 25×
ἄῤῥωστος
arrostos
adjective · 5×
ἐν
en
preposition · 2743×
ἱκανός
ikanos
adjective · 40×
ὑμεῖς
umeis
pronoun · 1828×

Historic Christian voices

8 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…
§1509"Heal the sick!"120 The Church has received this charge from the Lord and strives to carry it out by taking care of the sick as well as by accompanying them with her prayer of intercession. She believes in the life-giving presence of Christ, the physician of souls and bodies. This presence is particularly active through the sacraments, and in an altogether special way through t…
1. Paul wishing to show the great kindness of God towards man, and the Love which He had for the human race, after saying: Forasmuch then as the children were partakers of blood and flesh, He also Himself likewise took part of the same Hebrews 2:14— follows up the subject in this passage. For do not regard lightly what is spoken, nor think this merely a slight [matter], His tak…
1. The Parable of the Tares: the House of Jesus. Then He left the multitudes and went into His house, and His disciples came unto Him saying, Declare to us the parable of the tares of the field. Matthew 13:36 When Jesus then is with the multitudes, He is not in His house, for the multitudes are outside of the house, and it is an act which springs from His love of men to leave t…
1. Introduction to the Feeding of the Five Thousand. And when even had come His disciples came to Him, Matthew 14:15 that is, at the consummation of the age in regard to which we may fitly say what is found in the Epistle of John, It is the last hour. 1 John 2:18 They, not yet understanding what the Word was about to do, say to Him, The place is desert, Matthew 14:15 seeing the…

Cross-references

  • 1Cor 11:29 — For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body.
  • 1Cor 11:32 — But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.
  • 1Kgs 13:21 — And he cried unto the man of God that came from Judah, saying, Thus saith the LORD, Forasmuch as thou hast disobeyed the mouth of the LORD, and hast not kept the commandment which the LORD thy God com
  • 1Thess 4:14 — For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
  • 2Sam 6:7 — And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzzah; and God smote him there for his error; and there he died by the ark of God.
  • 2Sam 12:14 — Howbeit, because by this deed thou hast given great occasion to the enemies of the LORD to blaspheme, the child also that is born unto thee shall surely die.
  • Amos 3:2 — You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.
  • Exod 15:26 — And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put n
  • Jas 5:15 — And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.
  • Matt 27:52 — And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose,
  • Num 20:12 — And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron, Because ye believed me not, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have giv
  • Num 20:24 — Aaron shall be gathered unto his people: for he shall not enter into the land which I have given unto the children of Israel, because ye rebelled against my word at the water of Meribah.
  • Num 21:6 — And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.
  • Prov 11:31 — Behold, the righteous shall be recompensed in the earth: much more the wicked and the sinner.
  • Ps 38:1 — O LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.
  • Ps 39:11 — When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.
  • Ps 78:30 — They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat was yet in their mouths,
  • Ps 89:31 — If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments;
  • Rev 3:19 — As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.