1 Corinthians 11:20 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord's supper. ”

• 1 Corinthians 11:20 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  When ye come together therefore ... - When you are assembled as a church, compare Hebrews 10:25 , and see the note on Acts 2:1 . Christians were constantly in the habit of assembling for public...

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• 1 Corinthians 11:20 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  When ye come together therefore into one place, [this] is (g) not to eat the Lord's supper. (g) This is a usual metaphor by which the apostle flatly denies that which many did not do well.

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• 1 Corinthians 11:20 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  1 Corinthians 11:7-34 . The Desecration of the Lord's Supper. Paul feels that in one respect he must restrict his praise. Their meetings damage rather than profit them. He cannot help believing pa...

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• 1 Corinthians 11:20 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  into one place . Greek. epi to auto. See Acts 2:1 . These were the social meals of the early church, called love feasts ( 2 Peter 2:13 . Jude 1:12 ; Jude 1:12 ), followed by the Lord's Supper. A...

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• 1 Corinthians 11:20 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  20. This is not to eat the Lord’s supper He now reproves the abuse that had crept in among the Corinthians as to the Lord’s Supper, in respect of their mixing up profane banquets with the sa...

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• 1 Corinthians 11:20 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord's supper. This is not to eat the Lord's Supper - They did not come together to eat the Lord's Supper exclusively, which t...

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• 1 Corinthians 11:20 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord's supper. When ... therefore - resuming the thread of discourse ( 1 Corinthians 11:18 ). This is not to. It is...

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• 1 Corinthians 11:20 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Disorders In Worship 2-16. (c) The Veiling of Women in Church 2. Now I praise you] This v. introduces the two following sections. The Apostle begins by praising them, perhaps echoing words from...

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• 1 Corinthians 11:20 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord’s supper. — Better, Therefore, when you assemble in the same place, it is not to eat the supper dedicated to the Lord....

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• 1 Corinthians 11:20 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  Chapter 17 ABUSE OF THE LORD'S SUPPER IN this paragraph of his letter Paul speaks of an abuse which can scarcely be credited, still less tolerated, in our times. The most sacred of all Christian...

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• 1 Corinthians 11:20 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Unity and Order in Public Assembly 1 Corinthians 11:11-22 The power on a woman's head in 1 Corinthians 11:10 probably refers to the veil or covering which the Grecian woman assumed at marri...

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• 1 Corinthians 11:20 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Another Corinthian question concerned the position of woman and her true attitude in the exercise of divinely bestowed gifts. He declared that woman's true position is subservience to man. The nature...

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• 1 Corinthians 11:20 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (17) Now in this that I declare unto you I praise you not, that ye come together not for the better, but for the worse. (18) For first of all, when ye come together in the church, I hear that there b...

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• 1 Corinthians 11:20 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  When ye come together therefore into one place ,.... Though επι το αυτο does not signify so much the unity of the place, as of the persons meeting together, and their conjunction; so the phrase is...

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• 1 Corinthians 11:20 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord's supper. Ver. 20. This is not to eat, &c. ] When the Lord's supper therefore is not rightly administered, it is...

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• 1 Corinthians 11:20 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  When ye come together therefore In such a manner as you do; into one place Under pretence of celebrating the holy ordinance of the eucharist, and have such strife and contention among you, and ac...

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• 1 Corinthians 11:20 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  Chapter s 11 to 14 no longer consider the question of testimony or conduct as before the world, but rather the conduct, order, unity that is becoming in the Assembly, the body of Christ. Yet this is...

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• 1 Corinthians 11:20 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Profanation of the Lord's Supper. A. D.  57.       17 Now in this that I declare unto you I prais...

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• 1 Corinthians 11:20 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  The Greek words do not necessarily signify into one place, they may as well be translated, for the same thing, and possibly that were the better translation of them in this place; divisions appear...

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• 1 Corinthians 11:20 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  Approach to Worship (11:2-14:40). We now move on to a section which deals with the Christian approach to worship in the light of the particular problems of the Corinthian church. Chapter 11 covers...

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• 1 Corinthians 11:20 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL NOTES NEW TOPIC: THE LORD’S SUPPER AND THE LOVE-FEASTS 1 Corinthians 11:17 .— Backward reference: the directions just given , and the general praise of 1 Corinthians 11:2 , are not t...

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• 1 Corinthians 11:20 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  The members of the church at Corinth abounded in gifts, and therefore they thought it meet for each one to speak to edification. They had no pastoral oversight whatever; acting, in this respect, like...

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• 1 Corinthians 11:20 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  1 Corinthians 11:2 . Keep the ordinances, as I delivered them to you. The apostle mentions these twice to the Thessalonians, and nearly in the same words. 2 Thessalonians 2:15 ; 2 Thessalonians...

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• 1 Corinthians 11:20 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Now … I praise you not, that ye come together not for the better, but for the worse. Unprofitable public worship I. When do we come together, not for the better, but for the worse? This may be...

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• 1 Corinthians 11:20 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION 1 Corinthians 11:1 Followers of me; rather, imitators of me; follow herein my example, as I follow Christ's. What Christ's example was, in that he too "pleased not himself,"...

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• 1 Corinthians 11:20 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Unseemly behavior in public worship:

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• 1 Corinthians 11:20 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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• 1 Corinthians 11:20 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

  The Lord's Supper 1 Corinthians 11:20-24 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Circumstances under which the Supper was inaugurated. 1. Christ knew He would die. 2. After the Passover passed away the Supper...

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• 1 Corinthians 11:20 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Therefore — That is, in consequence of those schisms. It is not eating the Lord's supper — That solemn memorial of his death; but quite another thing.

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