Bible in Basic English
"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."
— 1 Corinthians 11:21, Bible in Basic English
“For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunken.”
“for in your eating each one taketh before other his own supper; and one is hungry, and another is drunken. ”
“For in your eating each one takes his own supper first. One is hungry, and another is drunken.”
“For when it is time to eat, everyone proceeds with his own supper. One is hungry and another becomes drunk.”
“For every one taketh before his own supper to eat. And one indeed is hungry and another is drunk.”
“For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunken.”
For first of all, it has come to my ears that when you come together in the church, there are divisions among you, and I take the statement to be true in part.
For divisions are necessary among you, in order that those who have God's approval may be clearly seen among you.
But now, when you come together, it is not possible to take the holy meal of the Lord:
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.
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.
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,
And when it had been broken with an act of praise, he said, This is my body which is for you: do this in memory of me.