For in your eating each one takes his own supper first. One is hungry, and another is drunken.
Parallel translations
- KJV For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunken.
- BSB For as you eat, each of you goes ahead without sharing his meal. While one remains hungry, another gets drunk.
- NKJV For in eating, each one takes his own supper ahead of others; and one is hungry and another is drunk.
- NASB for when you eat, each one takes his own supper first; and one goes hungry while another gets drunk.
- NLT For some of you hurry to eat your own meal without sharing with others. As a result, some go hungry while others get drunk.
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Cross-references · 4
- Jude 1:12These are hidden rocky reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you, shepherds who without fear feed themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
- 2 Pet 2:13receiving the wages of unrighteousness; people who count it pleasure to revel in the daytime, spots and defects, reveling in their deceit while they feast with you;
- 1 Cor 10:16–18The cup of blessing which we bless, isn’t it a sharing of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, isn’t it a sharing of the body of Christ?
- 1 Cor 11:23–25For 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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