1 Corinthians 11:27 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. ”

• 1 Corinthians 11:27 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Wherefore - ( ὥστε hōste). So that, or it follows from what has been said. If this be the origin and intention of the Lord’s Supper, then it follows that whoever partakes of it in an improp...

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• 1 Corinthians 11:27 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  (19) Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink [this] cup of the Lord, (k) unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. (19) Whoever condemns the holy ordinances, that is...

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• 1 Corinthians 11:27 - 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 11:27 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  unworthily . Greek. anaxios. Only here and 1 Corinthians 11:29 (which see). guilty . Greek. enochos, as Matthew 26:66 of . in regard to. The Genitive of Relation. App-17.

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• 1 Corinthians 11:27 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  27. Therefore he who shall eat this bread unworthily. If the Lord requires gratitude from us in the receiving of this sacrament — if he would have us acknowledge his grace with the heart, an...

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• 1 Corinthians 11:27 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

  DISCOURSE: 1979 ON EATING AND DRINKING OUR OWN DAMNATION 1 Corinthians 11:27 ; 1 Corinthians 11:29 . Whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty...

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• 1 Corinthians 11:27 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. Whosoever shall eat - and drink - unworthily - To put a fina...

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• 1 Corinthians 11:27 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  And drink— The original is, or drink. Our Saviour, in the institution of the Lord's supper, tells the Apostles, that the bread and the wine were sacramentally his body and blood, and that they we...

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• 1 Corinthians 11:27 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. Eat ... and drink. So A Delta (Lachmann versus Tischen...

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• 1 Corinthians 11:27 - 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 11:27 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord... — Better, Wherefore, whosoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord. The entire weight of MS. evidence is in fa...

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• 1 Corinthians 11:27 - 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 11:27 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Observing the Lord's Supper 1 Corinthians 11:23-34 There was much disorder in the Corinthian church, because the love-feast, which preceded the Holy Supper, was the scene of riot and conviviali...

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• 1 Corinthians 11:27 - 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 11:27 - 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 11:27 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Wherefore ,.... Since this is the plain institution of the Lord's supper, the form and manner of administering of it; and since the bread and wine in it are representations of the body and blood of...

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• 1 Corinthians 11:27 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. Ver. 27. Shall be guilty ] Because they profane the holy...

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• 1 Corinthians 11:27 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  He also took the cup when he had supped Or, after supper. “This circumstance is mentioned to show that the Lord's supper is not intended for the refreshment of the body, but, as we are told 1 Co...

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• 1 Corinthians 11:27 - 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 11:27 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Design of the Lord's Supper. A. D.  57.       23 For I have received of the Lord that which also I...

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• 1 Corinthians 11:27 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Divines agree, that the unworthiness here spoken of, respecteth not the person of the receiver so much as the manner of the receiving; in which sense, a person that is worthy may receive this ordinan...

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• 1 Corinthians 11:27 - 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 11:27 - 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 11:27 - Scofield Reference Notes

  unworthily That is, in an unworthy manner. Compare ( 1 Corinthians 11:20-22 ).

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• 1 Corinthians 11:27 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  1 Corinthians 11:27 The absence of teaching on the subject of the Holy Communion in the Epistles is no argument that the Holy Communion was an unimportant part of Divine worship in apostolic days....

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• 1 Corinthians 11:27 - 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 11:27 - 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 11:27 - The Biblical Illustrator

  And after the same manner also He took the cup. The sacramental cup He doubleth the elements, to show that in Christ is not only necessary and sufficient, but also plentiful and abundant, with...

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• 1 Corinthians 11:27 - 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 11:27 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Worthy and unworthy communicants:

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• 1 Corinthians 11:27 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Corinthians 10:21 ; 1 Corinthians 11:29 ; 2 Chronicles 30:18-20 ; John 13:18-27 ; John 6:51 ; John 6:63 ; John 6:64 ; Leviticus 10:1-3 ; Matthew 22:11 ; Numbers 9:10 ; Numbers 9:13

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• 1 Corinthians 11:27 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Whosoever shall eat this bread unworthily — That is, in an unworthy, irreverent manner; without regarding either Him that appointed it, or the design of its appointment. Shall be guilty of profanin...

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