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1 Corinthians 11:20

When therefore you assemble yourselves together, it is not the Lord’s supper that you eat.

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  • WEB World English Bible

    When therefore you assemble yourselves together, it is not the Lord’s supper that you eat.

  • TYNDALE Tyndale New Testament (1534)

    When ye come to gedder a man cannot eate the lordes supper.

  • GNV Geneva Bible (1599)

    When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eate the Lords Supper.

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John Calvin 1540 · Public Domain 20. This is not to eat the Lord’s supper…

20. This is not to eat the Lord’s supper He now reproves the abuse that had crept in among the Corinthians as to the Lord’s Supper, in respect of their mixing up profane banquets with the sacred and spiritual feast, and that too with contempt of the poor. Paul says, that in this way it is not the Lord’s supper that is partaken of — not that a single abuse altogether set aside the sacred institution of Christ, and reduced it to nothing, but that they polluted the sacrament by observing it in a wrong way. For we are accustomed to say, in common conversation, that a thing is not done at all, if it is not done aright. Now this was no trivial abuse, as we shall afterwards see. If you understand the words is not as meaning, is not allowable, the meaning will amount to the same thing — that the Corinthians were not in a state of preparation for partaking of the Lord’s supper, as being in so divided a state. What I stated a little ago, however, is more simple — that he condemns that profane admixture, which had nothing in it akin to the Lord’s Supper.

John Calvin's Commentaries (1540-1563) — public domain. Text from the Calvin Translation Society English edition (1840s-50s) via the Christian Classics Ethereal Library (ccel.org). Calvin's coverage is partial (roughly two-thirds of the Bible); uncommented books and verses are honest gaps, never fabricated. The 19th-century editor's footnotes and remarks are omitted so the notes are faithfully Calvin's own voice.

Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain This is an usual kind of speech, whereby the…
John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 20 When ye come together therefore into one place,…
Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain The Greek words do not necessarily signify into one…
William Burkitt 1703 · Public Domain As if he had said, "True, ye Corinthians, when…
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain For in eating,.... Not at the Lord's table, but…
John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Therefore - That is, in consequence of those schisms.…
Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 20. This is not to eat the Lord's…
Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain 1Co 11:20-22. When ye come together therefore — In…
Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain When ye come together therefore ... - When you…
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain The Lord’s supper. So the apostle here calls the…
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain When . . . therefore--Resuming the thread of discourse…
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 20. Not… supper—The performances they came to enact were…
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 20. into one place] Literally, to (or at) the…
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (20) When ye come together therefore into one place,…
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Into one place. There were as yet no churches.…
B. W. Johnson 1891 · Public Domain 20. When ye come together, therefore. When they assembled…
J. W. McGarvey 1914 · Public Domain When therefore ye assemble yourselves together, it is not…
unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 come together
Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 11:20-22 Some people were more concerned about eating their…
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