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id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv">Verse<a href="/bsb/1_corinthians/11.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#001320" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><a href="/niv/1_corinthians/11.htm">New International Version</a> For those who eat and drink without discerning the body of Christ eat and drink judgment on themselves. <a href="/nlt/1_corinthians/11.htm">New Living Translation</a> For if you eat the bread or drink the cup without honoring the body of Christ, you are eating and drinking God’s judgment upon yourself. <a href="/esv/1_corinthians/11.htm">English Standard Version</a> For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment on himself. <a href="/bsb/1_corinthians/11.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a> For anyone who eats and drinks without recognizing the body eats and drinks judgment on himself. <a href="/blb/1_corinthians/11.htm">Berean Literal Bible</a> For the one eating and drinking not discerning the body, eats and drinks judgment on himself. <a href="/kjv/1_corinthians/11.htm">King James Bible</a> For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body. <a href="/nkjv/1_corinthians/11.htm">New King James Version</a> For he who eats and drinks in an unworthy manner eats and drinks judgment to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body. <a href="/nasb_/1_corinthians/11.htm">New American Standard Bible</a> For the one who eats and drinks, eats and drinks judgment to himself if he does not properly recognize the body. <a href="/nasb/1_corinthians/11.htm">NASB 1995</a> For he who eats and drinks, eats and drinks judgment to himself if he does not judge the body rightly. <a href="/nasb77/1_corinthians/11.htm">NASB 1977 </a> For he who eats and drinks, eats and drinks judgment to himself, if he does not judge the body rightly. <a href="/lsb/1_corinthians/11.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a> For he who eats and drinks, eats and drinks judgment to himself if he does not judge the body rightly. <a href="/amp/1_corinthians/11.htm">Amplified Bible</a> For anyone who eats and drinks [without solemn reverence and heartfelt gratitude for the sacrifice of Christ], eats and drinks a judgment on himself if he does not recognize the body [of Christ]. <a href="/csb/1_corinthians/11.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a> For whoever eats and drinks without recognizing the body, eats and drinks judgment on himself. <a href="/hcsb/1_corinthians/11.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a> For whoever eats and drinks without recognizing the body, eats and drinks judgment on himself. <a href="/asv/1_corinthians/11.htm">American Standard Version</a> For he that eateth and drinketh, eateth and drinketh judgment unto himself, if he discern not the body. <a href="/cev/1_corinthians/11.htm">Contemporary English Version</a> If you fail to understand that you are the body of the Lord, you will condemn yourselves by the way you eat and drink. <a href="/erv/1_corinthians/11.htm">English Revised Version</a> For he that eateth and drinketh, eateth and drinketh judgment unto himself, if he discern not the body. <a href="/gwt/1_corinthians/11.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a> Anyone who eats and drinks is eating and drinking a judgment against himself when he doesn't recognize the Lord's body. <a href="/gnt/1_corinthians/11.htm">Good News Translation</a> For if you do not recognize the meaning of the Lord's body when you eat the bread and drink from the cup, you bring judgment on yourself as you eat and drink. <a href="/isv/1_corinthians/11.htm">International Standard Version</a> because whoever eats and drinks without recognizing the body, eats and drinks judgment on himself. <a href="/msb/1_corinthians/11.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a> For anyone who eats and drinks unworthily, without recognizing the body of the Lord, eats and drinks judgment on himself. <a href="/net/1_corinthians/11.htm">NET Bible</a> For the one who eats and drinks without careful regard for the body eats and drinks judgment against himself. <a href="/nheb/1_corinthians/11.htm">New Heart English Bible</a> For he who eats and drinks eats and drinks judgment to himself, if he does not discern the body. <a href="/wbt/1_corinthians/11.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a> For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh condemnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body. <a href="/wey/1_corinthians/11.htm">Weymouth New Testament</a> For any one who eats and drinks, eats and drinks judgement to himself, if he fails to estimate the body aright. <a href="/web/1_corinthians/11.htm">World English Bible</a> For he who eats and drinks in an unworthy way eats and drinks judgment to himself if he doesn’t discern the Lord’s body. <div class="vheading2">Literal Translations</div><a href="/lsv/1_corinthians/11.htm">Literal Standard Version</a> for he who is eating and drinking unworthily, he eats and drinks judgment to himself—not discerning the body of the LORD. <a href="/blb/1_corinthians/11.htm">Berean Literal Bible</a> For the one eating and drinking not discerning the body, eats and drinks judgment on himself. <a href="/ylt/1_corinthians/11.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a> for he who is eating and drinking unworthily, judgment to himself he doth eat and drink -- not discerning the body of the Lord. <a href="/slt/1_corinthians/11.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a> For he eating and drinking unworthily, eats and drinks judgment to himself, not discerning the Lord's body.<div class="vheading2">Catholic Translations</div><a href="/drb/1_corinthians/11.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a> For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh judgment to himself, not discerning the body of the Lord. <a href="/cpdv/1_corinthians/11.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a> For whoever eats and drinks unworthily, eats and drinks a sentence against himself, not discerning it to be the body of the Lord. <a href="/nabre/1_corinthians/11.htm">New American Bible</a> For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body, eats and drinks judgment on himself. <a href="/nrsvce/1_corinthians/11.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a> For all who eat and drink without discerning the body, eat and drink judgment against themselves.<div class="vheading2">Translations from Aramaic</div><a href="/lamsa/1_corinthians/11.htm">Lamsa Bible</a> For he who eats and drinks unworthily, eats and drinks to his condemnation; for he does not discern the LORD’s body. <a href="/aramaic-plain-english/1_corinthians/11.htm">Aramaic Bible in Plain English</a> For whoever eats and drinks from it being unworthy, eats and drinks a guilty verdict into his soul for not distinguishing the body of THE LORD JEHOVAH.<div class="vheading2">NT Translations</div><a href="/anderson/1_corinthians/11.htm">Anderson New Testament</a> for he that eats and drinks in an improper manner, eats and drinks condemnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body. <a href="/godbey/1_corinthians/11.htm">Godbey New Testament</a> for the one eating and drinking, net discerning the body, eats and drinks condemnation to himself. <a href="/haweis/1_corinthians/11.htm">Haweis New Testament</a> For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh condemnation to himself, not distinguishing the Lord?s body. <a href="/mace/1_corinthians/11.htm">Mace New Testament</a> for he that eats and drinks in a disrespectful manner, not discriminating the Lord's body, eateth and drinketh to his own punishment. <a href="/wey/1_corinthians/11.htm">Weymouth New Testament</a> For any one who eats and drinks, eats and drinks judgement to himself, if he fails to estimate the body aright. <a href="/worrell/1_corinthians/11.htm">Worrell New Testament</a> for he that eats and drinks unworthily, eats and drinks judgment to himself, not discerning the body. <a href="/worsley/1_corinthians/11.htm">Worsley New Testament</a> for he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh judgement against himself, not distinguishing the Lord's body. <a href="/parallel/1_corinthians/11-29.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv">Audio Bible</div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/g-wZWoK_LZU?start=2442" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="vheadingv">Context</div><a href="/bsb/1_corinthians/11.htm">Sharing in the Lord's Supper</a> …28Each one must examine himself before he eats of the bread and drinks of the cup. 29<a href="/greek/1063.htm" title="1063: gar (Conj) -- For. A primary particle; properly, assigning a reason.">For</a> <a href="/greek/3588.htm" title="3588: ho (Art-NMS) -- The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.">anyone who</a> <a href="/greek/2068.htm" title="2068: esthiōn (V-PPA-NMS) -- Strengthened for a primary edo; used only in certain tenses, the rest being supplied by phago; to eat.">eats</a> <a href="/greek/2532.htm" title="2532: kai (Conj) -- And, even, also, namely. ">and</a> <a href="/greek/4095.htm" title="4095: pinōn (V-PPA-NMS) -- To drink, imbibe. A prolonged form of pio, which poo occurs only as an alternate in certain tenses; to imbibe.">drinks</a> <a href="/greek/3361.htm" title="3361: mē (Adv) -- Not, lest. A primary particle of qualified negation; not, lest; also (whereas ou expects an affirmative one) whether.">without</a> <a href="/greek/1252.htm" title="1252: diakrinōn (V-PPA-NMS) -- From dia and krino; to separate thoroughly, i.e. to withdraw from, or oppose; figuratively, to discriminate, or hesitate.">recognizing</a> <a href="/greek/3588.htm" title="3588: to (Art-ANS) -- The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.">the</a> <a href="/greek/4983.htm" title="4983: sōma (N-ANS) -- Body, flesh; the body of the Church. From sozo; the body, used in a very wide application, literally or figuratively.">body</a> <a href="/greek/2068.htm" title="2068: esthiei (V-PIA-3S) -- Strengthened for a primary edo; used only in certain tenses, the rest being supplied by phago; to eat.">eats</a> <a href="/greek/2532.htm" title="2532: kai (Conj) -- And, even, also, namely. ">and</a> <a href="/greek/4095.htm" title="4095: pinei (V-PIA-3S) -- To drink, imbibe. A prolonged form of pio, which poo occurs only as an alternate in certain tenses; to imbibe.">drinks</a> <a href="/greek/2917.htm" title="2917: krima (N-ANS) -- From krino; a decision (crime).">judgment</a> <a href="/greek/1438.htm" title="1438: heautō (RefPro-DM3S) -- Himself, herself, itself. ">on himself.</a> 30That is why many among you are weak and sick, and a number of you have fallen asleep.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div> <a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><a href="/1_corinthians/10-16.htm">1 Corinthians 10:16-17</a> Is not the cup of blessing that we bless a participation in the blood of Christ? And is not the bread that we break a participation in the body of Christ? / Because there is one loaf, we who are many are one body; for we all partake of the one loaf. <a href="/1_corinthians/10-21.htm">1 Corinthians 10:21</a> You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too; you cannot partake in the table of the Lord and the table of demons too. <a href="/1_corinthians/3-16.htm">1 Corinthians 3:16-17</a> Do you not know that you yourselves are God’s temple, and that God’s Spirit dwells in you? / If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple. <a href="/1_corinthians/6-19.htm">1 Corinthians 6:19-20</a> Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; / you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God with your body. <a href="/hebrews/10-29.htm">Hebrews 10:29</a> How much more severely do you think one deserves to be punished who has trampled on the Son of God, profaned the blood of the covenant that sanctified him, and insulted the Spirit of grace? <a href="/matthew/26-26.htm">Matthew 26:26-28</a> While they were eating, Jesus took bread, spoke a blessing and broke it, and gave it to the disciples, saying, “Take and eat; this is My body.” / Then He took the cup, gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, “Drink from it, all of you. / This is My blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins. <a href="/john/6-53.htm">John 6:53-56</a> So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I tell you, unless you eat the flesh and drink the blood of the Son of Man, you have no life in you. / Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. / For My flesh is real food, and My blood is real drink. ... <a href="/luke/22-19.htm">Luke 22:19-20</a> And He took the bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, “This is My body, given for you; do this in remembrance of Me.” / In the same way, after supper He took the cup, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in My blood, which is poured out for you. <a href="/mark/14-22.htm">Mark 14:22-24</a> While they were eating, Jesus took bread, spoke a blessing and broke it, and gave it to the disciples, saying, “Take it; this is My body.” / Then He took the cup, gave thanks, and gave it to them, and they all drank from it. / He said to them, “This is My blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many. <a href="/acts/2-42.htm">Acts 2:42</a> They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. <a href="/romans/14-1.htm">Romans 14:1-3</a> Accept him whose faith is weak, without passing judgment on his opinions. / For one person has faith to eat all things, while another, who is weak, eats only vegetables. / The one who eats everything must not belittle the one who does not, and the one who does not eat everything must not judge the one who does, for God has accepted him. <a href="/romans/14-10.htm">Romans 14:10-12</a> Why, then, do you judge your brother? Or why do you belittle your brother? For we will all stand before God’s judgment seat. / It is written: “As surely as I live, says the Lord, every knee will bow before Me; every tongue will confess to God.” / So then, each of us will give an account of himself to God. <a href="/romans/14-23.htm">Romans 14:23</a> But the one who has doubts is condemned if he eats, because his eating is not from faith; and everything that is not from faith is sin. <a href="/2_corinthians/13-5.htm">2 Corinthians 13:5</a> Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith; test yourselves. Do you not realize that Jesus Christ is in you—unless you fail the test? <a href="/galatians/6-7.htm">Galatians 6:7-8</a> Do not be deceived: God is not to be mocked. Whatever a man sows, he will reap in return. / The one who sows to please his flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; but the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.</div> <a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div>For he that eats and drinks unworthily, eats and drinks damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body.damnation.<a href="/1_corinthians/11-30.htm">1 Corinthians 11:30,32-34</a> For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep… <a href="/romans/13-2.htm">Romans 13:2</a> Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation.<a href="/james/3-1.htm">James 3:1</a> My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.not.<a href="/1_corinthians/11-24.htm">1 Corinthians 11:24,27</a> And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me… <a href="/ecclesiastes/8-5.htm">Ecclesiastes 8:5</a> Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing: and a wise man's heart discerneth both time and judgment.<a href="/hebrews/5-14.htm">Hebrews 5:14</a> But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.<div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/jeremiah/8-6.htm">Aright</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/11-27.htm">Body</a> <a href="/romans/13-2.htm">Condemnation</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/8-7.htm">Conscious</a> <a href="/romans/13-2.htm">Damnation</a> <a href="/romans/16-4.htm">Danger</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/6-5.htm">Discern</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/4-4.htm">Discerning</a> <a href="/daniel/6-3.htm">Distinguishing</a> <a href="/luke/7-34.htm">Drinker</a> <a href="/john/6-56.htm">Drinketh</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/11-28.htm">Drinks</a> <a href="/luke/7-34.htm">Eater</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/9-7.htm">Eateth</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/11-28.htm">Eats</a> <a href="/leviticus/27-14.htm">Estimate</a> <a href="/luke/16-9.htm">Fails</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/11-20.htm">Holy</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/11-13.htm">Judge</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/7-40.htm">Judgement</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/9-8.htm">Judgment</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/11-27.htm">Lord's</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/11-27.htm">Manner</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/11-25.htm">Meal</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/11-18.htm">Part</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/11-5.htm">Puts</a> <a href="/acts/13-27.htm">Recognizing</a> <a href="/romans/2-2.htm">Rightly</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/11-27.htm">Unworthily</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/11-27.htm">Unworthy</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/1_corinthians/11-31.htm">Aright</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/12-12.htm">Body</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/11-34.htm">Condemnation</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/12-2.htm">Conscious</a> <a href="/1_timothy/5-12.htm">Damnation</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/15-30.htm">Danger</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/14-29.htm">Discern</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/11-31.htm">Discerning</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/12-10.htm">Distinguishing</a> <a href="/1_timothy/3-3.htm">Drinker</a> <a href="/hebrews/6-7.htm">Drinketh</a> <a href="/hebrews/6-7.htm">Drinks</a> <a href="/judges/14-14.htm">Eater</a> <a href="/genesis/25-34.htm">Eateth</a> <a href="/exodus/12-15.htm">Eats</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/12-6.htm">Estimate</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/13-8.htm">Fails</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/11-33.htm">Holy</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/11-31.htm">Judge</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/11-34.htm">Judgement</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/11-31.htm">Judgment</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/14-37.htm">Lord's</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/13-5.htm">Manner</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/11-33.htm">Meal</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/12-14.htm">Part</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/14-35.htm">Puts</a> <a href="/galatians/2-9.htm">Recognizing</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/11-31.htm">Rightly</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/11-27.htm">Unworthily</a> <a href="/genesis/32-10.htm">Unworthy</a><div class="vheading2">1 Corinthians 11</div>1. <a href="/1_corinthians/11-1.htm">He reproves them, because in holy assemblies,</a> 4. <a href="/1_corinthians/11-4.htm">their men prayed with their heads covered,</a> 6. <a href="/1_corinthians/11-6.htm">and women with their heads uncovered;</a> 17. <a href="/1_corinthians/11-17.htm">and because generally their meetings were not for the better, but for the worse;</a> 21. <a href="/1_corinthians/11-21.htm">as, namely, in profaning with their own feast the Lord's supper.</a> 25. <a href="/1_corinthians/11-25.htm">Lastly, he calls them to the first institution thereof.</a> </div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 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width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top"><a href="/study/1_corinthians/11.htm">Study Bible</a></td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/study/1_corinthians/" title="Book Summary and Study">Book ◦</a> <a href="/study/chapters/1_corinthians/11.htm" title="Chapter summary and Study">Chapter </a></tr></table></div>For anyone who eats and drinks This phrase refers to the act of partaking in the Lord's Supper, a practice instituted by Jesus during the Last Supper (<a href="/matthew/26-26.htm">Matthew 26:26-28</a>). The early church gathered regularly to break bread and share in this sacred meal, which symbolized the new covenant in Christ's blood. The act of eating and drinking here is not merely physical but deeply spiritual, representing participation in the body and blood of Christ (<a href="/1_corinthians/10-16.htm">1 Corinthians 10:16</a>).without recognizing the body "Recognizing the body" implies a deep understanding and reverence for the significance of the Lord's Supper. The "body" can be interpreted as both the physical body of Christ, sacrificed for humanity, and the collective body of believers, the Church (<a href="/1_corinthians/12-27.htm">1 Corinthians 12:27</a>). Failing to discern this can lead to a lack of unity and respect among believers, which was a problem in the Corinthian church, where divisions and selfishness were evident (<a href="/1_corinthians/11-18.htm">1 Corinthians 11:18-22</a>).eats and drinks judgment on himself This phrase warns of the spiritual consequences of partaking in the Lord's Supper in an unworthy manner. The "judgment" here is not eternal condemnation but divine discipline, as seen in the context of the passage (<a href="/1_corinthians/11-30.htm">1 Corinthians 11:30-32</a>). This discipline serves as a corrective measure to bring believers back to a proper understanding and practice of the Lord's Supper. The concept of divine judgment for irreverence is consistent with other biblical examples, such as the judgment on Ananias and Sapphira for their deceit (<a href="/acts/5.htm">Acts 5:1-11</a>).<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <a href="/topical/p/paul_the_apostle.htm">Paul the Apostle</a> The author of 1 Corinthians, addressing issues within the Corinthian church. 2. <a href="/topical/c/corinthian_church.htm">Corinthian Church</a> The recipients of the letter, a diverse and often divided early Christian community. 3. <a href="/topical/t/the_lord's_supper.htm">The Lord's Supper</a> The event being discussed, a sacred Christian practice commemorating Jesus' Last Supper. 4. <a href="/topical/j/jesus_christ.htm">Jesus Christ</a> Central figure of Christianity, whose body and blood are symbolized in the Lord's Supper. 5. <a href="/topical/e/early_christian_gatherings.htm">Early Christian Gatherings</a> Context in which the Lord's Supper was observed, often in house churches.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><a href="/topical/u/understanding_the_body_of_christ.htm">Understanding the Body of Christ</a> Recognize the sacredness of the Lord's Supper as a representation of Christ's sacrifice. Reflect on the unity and community of believers as the body of Christ. <a href="/topical/s/self-examination.htm">Self-Examination</a> Encourage personal reflection and repentance before participating in the Lord's Supper. Consider one's relationship with God and others, seeking reconciliation where needed. <a href="/topical/a/avoiding_judgment.htm">Avoiding Judgment</a> Approach the Lord's Supper with reverence and understanding to avoid spiritual consequences. Acknowledge the seriousness of partaking in the sacrament unworthily. <a href="/topical/u/unity_in_the_church.htm">Unity in the Church</a> Promote harmony and love within the church community, recognizing each member as part of Christ's body. Address divisions and conflicts that may hinder the proper observance of the Lord's Supper.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_1_corinthians_11.htm">Top 10 Lessons from 1 Corinthians 11</a> <a href="/q/who_was_maimonides.htm">What is taking communion unworthily?</a> <a href="/q/what_does_'law_on_our_hearts'_mean.htm">When should Christians abstain from taking communion?</a> <a href="/q/is_'sin_no_more'_inconsistent_with_scripture.htm">If Jesus commanded the healed man to “sin no more” (John 5:14), implying sin caused his condition, isn’t that inconsistent with other Scriptures that refute direct sin-illness links? </a> <a href="/q/can_sin_directly_cause_illness.htm">Psalm 31:10 links sin to physical weakness—does any scientific or historical evidence suggest moral wrongdoing can directly cause illness? </a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/1_corinthians/11.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(29) Unworthily.--This word is not in the best Greek MSS.Damnation to himself.--The Greek word hero does not imply final condemnation. On the contrary, it only means such temporal judgments as the sickness and weakness subsequently mentioned, and which are to save the man from sharing the final damnation of the heathen.Not discerning the Lord's body.--The words "the Lord's" are to be omitted, the weight of MS. evidence being altogether against their authenticity. <a href="/1_corinthians/11-30.htm" title="For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.">1Corinthians 11:30</a> is a parenthesis, and <a href="/1_corinthians/11-31.htm" title="For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.">1Corinthians 11:31</a> re-opens with this same verb. The force of the passage is, "He who eats and drinks without discerning the Body (i.e., the Church) in that assembly, eats and drinks a judgment to himself; for if we would discern ourselves we should not be judged."There are some important points to be borne in mind regarding this interpretation of the passage. (1) The Greek word, which we render "discerning," "discern," signifies to arrive at a right estimate of the character or quality of a thing. (2) The fault which St. Paul was condemning was the practice which the Corinthians had fallen into of regarding these gatherings as opportunities for individual indulgence, and not as Church assemblies. They did not rightly estimate such gatherings as being corporate meetings; they did not rightly estimate themselves as not now isolated individuals, but members of the common Body. They ought to discern in these meetings of the Church a body; they ought to discern in themselves parts of a body. Not only is this interpretation, I venture to think, the most accurate and literal interpretation of the Greek, but it is the only view which seems to me to make the passage bear intelligibly on the point which St. Paul is considering, and the real evil which he seeks to counteract. (3) To refer these words directly or indirectly to the question of a physical presence in the Lord's Supper, is to divorce them violently from their surroundings, and to make them allude to some evil for which the explicit and practical remedy commended in <a href="/context/1_corinthians/11-33.htm" title="Why, my brothers, when you come together to eat, tarry one for another.">1Corinthians 11:33-34</a> would be no remedy at all. Moreover. if the word "body" means the Lord's physical body, surely the word "Lord's" would have been added, and the words, "and the blood," for the non-recognition of the blood would be just as great an offence. (4) St. Paul never uses the word "body" in reference to our Lord's physical body, without some clear indication that such is meant. (See <a href="/romans/7-4.htm" title="Why, my brothers, you also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that you should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit to God.">Romans 7:4</a>; <a href="/philippians/3-21.htm" title="Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like to his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things to himself.">Philippians 3:21</a>; <a href="/colossians/1-22.htm" title=" In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and blameless and unreproveable in his sight:">Colossians 1:22</a>.) On the other hand, the use of the word "Body," or "Body of Christ," meaning the Church, is frequent. We have had it but a few verses before, in reference to this very subject (<a href="/1_corinthians/10-16.htm" title="The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?">1Corinthians 10:16</a>). It is also to be found in <a href="/romans/12-5.htm" title="So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.">Romans 12:5</a>; <a href="/ephesians/1-22.htm" title="And has put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,">Ephesians 1:22</a>; <a href="/ephesians/5-23.htm" title="For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the savior of the body.">Ephesians 5:23</a>; <a href="/ephesians/5-30.htm" title="For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.">Ephesians 5:30</a>. (In this last passage, "of His flesh and of His bones," are not in the best MSS., and destroy the real force of the "Body," which means "Church.") . . . <div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/1_corinthians/11.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div>Verse 29. - Unworthily. The word is not genuine here, being repeated from ver. 27; it is omitted by א, A, B, C. Eateth and drinketh damnation to himself; rather, eateth and drinketh judgment to himself There is reason to believe that the word "damnation" once had a much milder meaning in English than that which it now popularly bears. In King James's time it probably did not of necessity mean more than "an unfavourable verdict." Otherwise this would be the most unfortunate mistranslation in the whole Bible. It has probably kept thousands, as it kept Goethe, from Holy Communion. We see from ver. 32 that this "judgment" had a purely merciful and disciplinary character. Not discerning; rather, if he discern not, the Lord's body, Any one who approach? the Lord's Supper in a spirit of levity or defiance, not discriminating between it and common food, draws on himself, by so eating and drinking, a judgment which is defined in the next verse. <a href="/commentaries/1_corinthians/11-29.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a> <a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Greek</div>For γὰρ (gar) Conjunction <a href="/greek/strongs_1063.htm">Strong's 1063: </a> For. A primary particle; properly, assigning a reason. anyone who ὁ (ho) Article - Nominative Masculine Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_3588.htm">Strong's 3588: </a> The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the. eats ἐσθίων (esthiōn) Verb - Present Participle Active - Nominative Masculine Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_2068.htm">Strong's 2068: </a> Strengthened for a primary edo; used only in certain tenses, the rest being supplied by phago; to eat. and καὶ (kai) Conjunction <a href="/greek/strongs_2532.htm">Strong's 2532: </a> And, even, also, namely. drinks πίνων (pinōn) Verb - Present Participle Active - Nominative Masculine Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_4095.htm">Strong's 4095: </a> To drink, imbibe. A prolonged form of pio, which poo occurs only as an alternate in certain tenses; to imbibe. without μὴ (mē) Adverb <a href="/greek/strongs_3361.htm">Strong's 3361: </a> Not, lest. A primary particle of qualified negation; not, lest; also (whereas ou expects an affirmative one) whether. recognizing διακρίνων (diakrinōn) Verb - Present Participle Active - Nominative Masculine Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_1252.htm">Strong's 1252: </a> From dia and krino; to separate thoroughly, i.e. to withdraw from, or oppose; figuratively, to discriminate, or hesitate. the τὸ (to) Article - Accusative Neuter Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_3588.htm">Strong's 3588: </a> The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the. body σῶμα (sōma) Noun - Accusative Neuter Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_4983.htm">Strong's 4983: </a> Body, flesh; the body of the Church. From sozo; the body, used in a very wide application, literally or figuratively. eats ἐσθίει (esthiei) Verb - Present Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_2068.htm">Strong's 2068: </a> Strengthened for a primary edo; used only in certain tenses, the rest being supplied by phago; to eat. and καὶ (kai) Conjunction <a href="/greek/strongs_2532.htm">Strong's 2532: </a> And, even, also, namely. drinks πίνει (pinei) Verb - Present Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_4095.htm">Strong's 4095: </a> To drink, imbibe. A prolonged form of pio, which poo occurs only as an alternate in certain tenses; to imbibe. judgment κρίμα (krima) Noun - Accusative Neuter Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_2917.htm">Strong's 2917: </a> From krino; a decision ('crime'). on himself. ἑαυτῷ (heautō) Reflexive Pronoun - Dative Masculine 3rd Person Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_1438.htm">Strong's 1438: </a> Himself, herself, itself. <div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/1_corinthians/11-29.htm">1 Corinthians 11:29 NIV</a> <a href="/nlt/1_corinthians/11-29.htm">1 Corinthians 11:29 NLT</a> <a href="/esv/1_corinthians/11-29.htm">1 Corinthians 11:29 ESV</a> <a href="/nasb/1_corinthians/11-29.htm">1 Corinthians 11:29 NASB</a> <a href="/kjv/1_corinthians/11-29.htm">1 Corinthians 11:29 KJV</a> <a href="//bibleapps.com/1_corinthians/11-29.htm">1 Corinthians 11:29 BibleApps.com</a> <a href="//bibliaparalela.com/1_corinthians/11-29.htm">1 Corinthians 11:29 Biblia Paralela</a> <a href="//holybible.com.cn/1_corinthians/11-29.htm">1 Corinthians 11:29 Chinese Bible</a> <a href="//saintebible.com/1_corinthians/11-29.htm">1 Corinthians 11:29 French Bible</a> <a href="/catholic/1_corinthians/11-29.htm">1 Corinthians 11:29 Catholic Bible</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/11-29.htm">NT Letters: 1 Corinthians 11:29 For he who eats and drinks (1 Cor. 1C iC 1Cor i cor icor) </a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/1_corinthians/11-28.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="1 Corinthians 11:28"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="1 Corinthians 11:28" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/1_corinthians/11-30.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="1 Corinthians 11:30"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="1 Corinthians 11:30" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>