1 Corinthians 11

Bible in Basic English (BBE)

20 But now, when you come together, it is not possible to take the holy meal of the Lord:

21 Ref For when you take your food, everyone takes his meal before the other; and one has not enough food, and another is the worse for drink.

22 Ref What? have you not houses to take your meals in? or have you no respect for the church of God, putting the poor to shame? What am I to say to you? am I to give you praise? certainly not.

23 Ref For it was handed down to me from the Lord, as I gave it to you, that the Lord Jesus, on the night when Judas was false to him, took bread,

Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

20 ye, then, coming together at the same place -- it is not to eat the Lord's supper;

21 Ref for each his own supper doth take before in the eating, and one is hungry, and another is drunk;

22 Ref why, have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or the assembly of God do ye despise, and shame those not having? what may I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I do not praise!

23 Ref For I -- I received from the Lord that which also I did deliver to you, that the Lord Jesus in the night in which he was delivered up, took bread,

World English Bible (WEB)

20 When therefore you assemble yourselves together, it is not possible to eat the Lord's supper.

21 Ref For in your eating each one takes his own supper before others. One is hungry, and another is drunken.

22 Ref What, don't you have houses to eat and to drink in? Or do you despise God's assembly, and put them to shame who don't have? What shall I tell you? Shall I praise you? In this I don't praise you.

23 Ref For I received from the Lord that which also I delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night in which he was betrayed took bread.

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