That is why many among you are weak and sick, and a number of you have fallen asleep.
Parallel translations
- WEB For this cause many among you are weak and sickly, and not a few sleep.
- KJV For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.
- NKJV For this reason many are weak and sick among you, and many sleep.
- NASB For this reason many among you are weak and sick, and a number are asleep.
- NLT That is why many of you are weak and sick and some have even died.
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Quick answer
Because of this abuse, many in the church were weak, sick, and some had died. Their profaning of the Supper had brought real divine discipline.
Overview
Paul attributes physical weakness, illness, and even death among the Corinthians to God's judgment for their unworthy participation. This sobering statement shows that God takes the holiness of the Supper seriously. It is a corrective discipline upon the church, meant to lead to repentance rather than condemnation, as the next verses clarify.
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- Rev 3:19Those I love, I rebuke and discipline. Therefore be earnest and repent.
- Exod 15:26saying, “If you will listen carefully to the voice of the LORD your God, and do what is right in His eyes, and pay attention to His commands, and keep all His statutes, then I will not bring on you any of the diseases I inflicted on the Egyptians. For I am the LORD who heals you.”
- Amos 3:2“Only you have I known from all the families of the earth; therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.”
- Num 20:12But the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “Because you did not trust Me to show My holiness in the sight of the Israelites, you will not bring this assembly into the land that I have given them.”
- Ps 38:1–8A Psalm of David, for remembrance. O LORD, do not rebuke me in Your anger or discipline me in Your wrath.
- 1 Th 4:14For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, we also believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in Him.
- Num 20:24“Aaron will be gathered to his people; he will not enter the land that I have given the Israelites, because both of you rebelled against My command at the waters of Meribah.
- 1 Kgs 13:21–24and the prophet cried out to the man of God who had come from Judah, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Because you have defied the word of the LORD and have not kept the commandment that the LORD your God gave you,
- 2 Sam 12:14–18Nevertheless, because by this deed you have shown utter contempt for the word of the LORD, the son born to you will surely die.”
- Num 21:6–9So the LORD sent venomous snakes among the people, and many of the Israelites were bitten and died.
- Ps 78:30–31Yet before they had filled their desire, with the food still in their mouths,
- Ps 89:31–34if they violate My statutes and fail to keep My commandments,
- Acts 13:36For when David had served God’s purpose in his own generation, he fell asleep. His body was buried with his fathers and saw decay.
- Heb 12:5–11And you have forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons: “My son, do not take lightly the discipline of the Lord, and do not lose heart when He rebukes you.
- 1 Cor 11:32But when we are judged by the Lord, we are being disciplined so that we will not be condemned with the world.
- 1 Cor 15:51Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed—
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