1 Corinthians 11:21
Modern Translations
New International Version
for when you are eating, some of you go ahead with your own private suppers. As a result, one person remains hungry and another gets drunk.

New Living Translation
For some of you hurry to eat your own meal without sharing with others. As a result, some go hungry while others get drunk.

English Standard Version
For in eating, each one goes ahead with his own meal. One goes hungry, another gets drunk.

Berean Study Bible
For as you eat, each of you goes ahead without sharing his meal. While one remains hungry, another gets drunk.

New American Standard Bible
for when you eat, each one takes his own supper first; and one goes hungry while another gets drunk.

NASB 1995
for in your eating each one takes his own supper first; and one is hungry and another is drunk.

NASB 1977
for in your eating each one takes his own supper first; and one is hungry and another is drunk.

Amplified Bible
for when you eat, each one hurries to get his own supper first [not waiting for others or the poor]. So one goes hungry while another gets drunk.

Christian Standard Bible
For at the meal, each one eats his own supper. So one person is hungry while another gets drunk!

Holman Christian Standard Bible
For at the meal, each one eats his own supper ahead of others. So one person is hungry while another gets drunk!

Contemporary English Version
You even start eating before everyone gets to the meeting, and some of you go hungry, while others get drunk.

Good News Translation
For as you eat, you each go ahead with your own meal, so that some are hungry while others get drunk.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Each of you eats his own supper [without waiting for each other]. So one person goes hungry and another gets drunk.

International Standard Version
For as you eat, each of you rushes to eat his own supper, and one person goes hungry while another gets drunk.

NET Bible
For when it is time to eat, everyone proceeds with his own supper. One is hungry and another becomes drunk.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunken.

New King James Version
For in eating, each one takes his own supper ahead of others; and one is hungry and another is drunk.

King James 2000 Bible
For in eating every one takes first his own supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunken.

New Heart English Bible
For in your eating each one takes his own supper first. One is hungry, and another is drunk.

World English Bible
For in your eating each one takes his own supper first. One is hungry, and another is drunken.

American King James Version
For in eating every one takes before other his own supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunken.

American Standard Version
for in your eating each one taketh before other his own supper; and one is hungry, and another is drunken.

A Faithful Version
For in eating, everyone takes his own supper first; now on the one hand, someone goes hungry; but on the other hand, another becomes drunken.

Darby Bible Translation
For each one in eating takes his own supper before [others], and one is hungry and another drinks to excess.

English Revised Version
for in your eating each one taketh before other his own supper; and one is hungry, and another is drunken.

Webster's Bible Translation
For in eating every one taketh before another his own supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunken.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
For euery man when they should eate, taketh his owne supper afore, and one is hungry, and another is drunken.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
For euery one preuenteth other, in eatyng his owne supper. And one is hungry, and another is drunken.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
And one is hogrie, another is dronke. Haue ye not houses to eate and drynke in?

Tyndale Bible of 1526
And one is hongrye and another is dronken. Have ye not houses to eate and to drinke in?
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
for each takes his own dinner before in the eating, and one is hungry, and another is drunk;

Berean Literal Bible
For in eating, one takes first the own supper. And indeed this one is hungry, but that one is drunken.

Young's Literal Translation
for each his own supper doth take before in the eating, and one is hungry, and another is drunk;

Smith's Literal Translation
For each takes his own supper in eating: and one is truly hungry, and one is intoxicated.

Literal Emphasis Translation
For in eating, each one takes beforehand his own supper and this one is hungry and that one is drunk.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
For every one taketh before his own supper to eat. And one indeed is hungry and another is drunk.

Catholic Public Domain Version
For each one first takes his own supper to eat. And as a result, one person is hungry, while another is inebriated.

Translations from Aramaic
Aramaic Bible in Plain English
But one or another eats his supper beforehand by himself and one has been hungry and one has been drunk!

Lamsa Bible
But some men eat their supper before others: and so it happens that one is hungry and another is drunken.

NT Translations
Anderson New Testament
for each one, in eating, takes before another, his own supper; and one is hungry, and another is drunken.

Godbey New Testament
for each one takes his own supper in eating; and one is hungry, and another is drunken.

Haweis New Testament
For one in the eating it taketh before another his own supper: and one is hungry, and another drinks to excess.

Mace New Testament
for in eating every one strives to take his own supper first, and while one is hungry, another is surfeited.

Weymouth New Testament
for it is his own supper of which each of you is in a hurry to partake, and one eats like a hungry man, while another has already drunk to excess.

Worrell New Testament
for, in your eating, each one takes his own supper before others; and one is hungry, and another is drunken!

Worsley New Testament
for in eating every one takes his own supper first; and one is hungry, and another is glutted.
















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