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1 Corinthians 11:21 - Meaning and Application
Understand how this verse speaks to what you're facing and how to apply it today
Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" For in your eating each one takes his own supper first. One is hungry, and another is drunken. "
1 Corinthians 11:21
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
19 For there also must be factions among you, that those who are approved may be revealed among you.
20 When therefore you assemble yourselves together, it is not the Lord’s supper that you eat.
21 For in your eating each one takes his own supper first. One is hungry, and another is drunken.
22 What, don’t you have houses to eat and to drink in? Or do you despise God’s assembly and put them to shame who don’t have enough? What shall I tell you? Shall I praise you? In this I don’t praise you.
23 For I received from the Lord that which also I delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night in which he was betrayed took bread.
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1 Corinthians 11:1
"Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ."
1 Corinthians 11:2
"Now I praise you, brothers, that you remember me in all things, and hold firm the traditions, even as I delivered them to you."
1 Corinthians 11:3
"But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God."
1 Corinthians 11:4
"Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonors his head."
1 Corinthians 11:5
"But every woman praying or prophesying with her head uncovered dishonors her head. For it is one and the same thing as if she were shaved."
1 Corinthians 11:6
"For if a woman is not covered, let her hair also be cut off. But if it is shameful for a woman to have her hair cut off or be shaved, let her be covered."
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