For every time you eat this bread and drink this cup, you are announcing the Lord’s death until he comes again.
Parallel translations
- WEB For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.
- KJV For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord’s death till he come.
- 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.
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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.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 15
- Heb 9:28so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, without sin, to those who are eagerly waiting for him for salvation.
- Rev 1:7Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, including those who pierced him. All the tribes of the earth will mourn over him. Even so, Amen.
- John 14:3If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and will receive you to myself; that where I am, you may be there also.
- Acts 1:11who also said, “You men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into the sky? This Jesus, who was received up from you into the sky, will come back in the same way as you saw him going into the sky.”
- 1 Jn 2:28Now, little children, remain in him, that when he appears, we may have boldness, 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 which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.
- John 21:22Jesus said to him, “If I desire that he stay until I come, what is that to you? You follow me.”
- 2 Th 2:2–3not to be quickly shaken in your mind, nor yet be troubled, either by spirit, or by word, or by letter as from us, saying that the day of Christ had come.
- 1 Th 4:16For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with God’s trumpet. The dead in Christ will rise first,
- 1 Cor 15:23But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, then those who are Christ’s, at his coming.
- Rev 20:11–12I saw a great white throne, and him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. There was found no place for them.
- Rev 22:20He who testifies these things says, “Yes, I come quickly.” Amen! Yes, come, Lord Jesus.
- Jude 1:14About these also Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, “Behold, the Lord came with ten thousands of his holy ones,
- 1 Cor 4:5Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.
- 2 Th 1:10when he comes to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired among all those who have believed (because our testimony to you was believed) in that day.
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