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1 Corinthians 11:31

For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.

KJV

εἰ δὲ ἑαυτοὺς διεκρίνομεν, οὐκ ἂν ἐκρινόμεθα·

Greek NT

Quod si nosmetipsos dijudicaremus, non utique judicaremur.

Vulgate

But if we discerned ourselves, we should not be judged.

ASV

But if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

7 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
διακρίνω
diakrino
verb · 19×
εἰ
ei
conditional · 491×
κρίνω
krino
verb · 114×
οὐ
ou
particle · 1626×
ἄν
an
particle · 165×
ἑαυτοῦ
eautou
reflexive_pronoun · 316×

Textual variants

1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

minor
SBLGNT: δὲ | WH/Treg/NIV: δὲ | RP: γὰρ
  • δὲSBLGNT
  • δὲWestcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • γὰρRobinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Historic Christian voices

7 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…
Homilies on Matthew · 2 passages
2. Wherefore not those that are slandered, but the slanderers, have need to be anxious and to tremble. For the former are not constrained to answer for themselves touching the evil things which are said of them, but the latter will, for the evil they have spoken; and over these impends the whole danger. So that the persons censured should be without anxiety, not being to give a…
2. But what is, Judging the twelve tribes of Israel? This is, condemning them. For they are not surely to sit as judges, but like as He said the Queen of the South should condemn that generation, and the Ninevites shall condemn them; so now these also. Therefore He said not, the nations, and the world, but the tribes of Israel. For since both the Jews alike and the apostles had…
God Who is good and altogether good and more than good, Who is goodness throughout, by reason of the exceeding riches of His goodness did not suffer Himself, that is His nature, only to be good, with no other to participate therein, but because of this He made first the spiritual and heavenly powers: next the visible and sensible universe: next man with his spiritual and sentie…

Cross-references

  • 1Cor 11:28 — But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup.
  • 1Cor 11:28 — But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup.
  • 1John 1:9 — If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
  • 2Chr 19:2 — And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, Shouldest thou help the ungodly, and love them that hate the LORD? therefore is wrath upon thee from before the
  • 2Cor 13:5 — Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?
  • Jer 31:18 — I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the LORD my Go
  • Lam 3:40 — Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
  • Lev 16:29 — And this shall be a statute for ever unto you: that in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, ye shall afflict your souls, and do no work at all, whether it be one of your own country, or a
  • Luke 15:18 — I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee,
  • Ps 6:1 — O LORD, rebuke me not in thine anger, neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.
  • Ps 32:3 — When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
  • Ps 119:175 — Let my soul live, and it shall praise thee; and let thy judgments help me.
  • Rev 2:5 — Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.
  • Rev 3:2 — Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God.