For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord’s death till he come.
Parallel translations
- WEB For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.
- BSB For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until He comes.
- NKJV For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death till He comes.
- NASB For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until He comes.
- NLT For every time you eat this bread and drink this cup, you are announcing the Lord’s death until he comes again.
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Quick answer
Eating the bread and drinking the cup proclaims the Lord's death until he returns. The Supper is a continual gospel proclamation looking forward to Christ's coming.
Overview
Paul explains the meaning of the Supper: it visibly announces Christ's death and points ahead to his return. The meal looks back to the cross and forward to the consummation, holding together the church's confession of past redemption and future hope. Every observance preaches the gospel until the Lord comes again.
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Cross-references · 15
- Heb 9:28So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.
- Rev 1:7Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.
- John 14:3And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.
- Acts 1:11Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.
- 1 Jn 2:28And now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.
- 2 Pet 3:10But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
- John 21:22Jesus saith unto him, If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee? follow thou me.
- 2 Th 2:2–3That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.
- 1 Th 4:16For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
- 1 Cor 15:23But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.
- Rev 20:11–12And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.
- Rev 22:20He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
- Jude 1:14And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,
- 1 Cor 4:5Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.
- 2 Th 1:10When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day.
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