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1 Corinthians 11:30

For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.
1 Corinthians 11:30 · King James Version
Parallel translations
  • WEB For this cause many among you are weak and sickly, and not a few sleep.
  • BSB That is why many among you are weak and sick, and a number of you have fallen asleep.
  • 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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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 3:19As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
  • Exod 15:26And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the LORD that healeth thee.
  • Amos 3:2You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.
  • Num 20:12And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron, Because ye believed me not, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have given them.
  • Ps 38:1–8O LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.
  • 1 Th 4:14For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
  • Num 20:24Aaron shall be gathered unto his people: for he shall not enter into the land which I have given unto the children of Israel, because ye rebelled against my word at the water of Meribah.
  • 1 Kgs 13:21–24And he cried unto the man of God that came from Judah, saying, Thus saith the LORD, Forasmuch as thou hast disobeyed the mouth of the LORD, and hast not kept the commandment which the LORD thy God commanded thee,
  • 2 Sam 12:14–18Howbeit, because by this deed thou hast given great occasion to the enemies of the LORD to blaspheme, the child also that is born unto thee shall surely die.
  • Num 21:6–9And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.
  • Ps 78:30–31They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat was yet in their mouths,
  • Ps 89:31–34If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments;
  • Acts 13:36For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption:
  • Heb 12:5–11And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:
  • 1 Cor 11:32But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.
  • 1 Cor 15:51Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,

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