Verse 31. _IF WE WOULD JUDGE OURSELVES_] If, having acted improperly, we condemn our conduct and humble ourselves, we shall not be _judged_, i.e. _punished_ for the sin we have committed....
FOR IF WE WOULD JUDGE OURSELVES - If we would examine ourselves, 1 Corinthians 11:28; if we would exercise a strict scrutiny over our hearts and feelings, and conduct, and come to the Lord’s Table wit...
II. THE CHURCH, THE BODY OF CHRIST: CHAPTER S 11-14 1. Headship, and the Position of Woman. The Lord's Supper. CHAPTER 11. _ 1. The Headship of Christ and of the Man; Position of Woman. (1 Corinthi...
1 Corinthians 11:7. 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 part of wh...
THE LIMITS OF CHRISTIAN FREEDOM (1 Corinthians 10:23-33 ; 1 Corinthians 11:1) 11:1 All things are allowed to me, but all things are not good for me. All things are allowed, but all things do not buil...
For I received of the Lord that which I also handed on to you, that the Lord Jesus, on the night on which he was being delivered up, took bread, and, after he had given thanks, he broke it and said, ...
WOULD. were to. JUDGE. Same as "discern", 1 Corinthians 11:29....
Disorders at the Lord's Supper 17. _Now in this that I declare unto you I praise you not_ St Paul was able to praise the Corinthians (1 Corinthians 11:2) for their attention to the injunctions he had...
_For if we would judge ourselves_ Perhaps better, with Dean Stanley, _if we had judged ourselves, these judgments_(i.e. weakness, sickness, death) _would not have fallen upon us_(though the rendering...
ΔΈ אABDEFG. γάρ rec. with C and Peshito. 31. ΕἸ ΔῈ ἙΑΥΤΟῪΣ ΔΙΕΚΡΊΝΟΜΕΝ. Dean Stanley renders, _if_ _WE__ had judged ourselves, these judgments_ (i.e. weakness, sickness, death) _would not have fallen...
DISORDERS AT THE LORD’S SUPPER...
_THE LORD'S SUPPER OBSERVED INCORRECTLY 1 CORINTHIANS 11:27-34:_ The character of the person partaking is not under consideration but the manner in which it is done. The message is, "whosoever shall e...
ΔΙΕΚΡΊΝΟΜΕΝ _impf. ind. act. от_ ΔΙΑΚΡΊΝΩ (G1252) рассуждать (_см._ 1 Corinthians 11:29). _Impf. ind._ с ΕΊ в _conj._ 2 типа, в котором условие рассматривается как противоречащее факту. ΈΚΡΙΝΌΜΕΘΑ _im...
FOR IF WE WOULD JUDGE OURSELVES, &C.— In 1 Corinthians 11:29 the Apostle uses the word διακρινων,— μη διακρινων,— _"Not discriminating,_ or not putting a difference between the sacramental bread and w...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 2 Oneness, a Requirement for Godly Worship (1 Corinthians 11:17-34) 17 But in the following instructions I do not commend you, because when you come together it is not for...
For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged. IF WE WOULD JUDGE OURSELVES. 'Aleph (') A B Delta G f g, Vulgate, read 'But,' not 'For' (which C has). Translate 'if we discriminatingly ju...
21 The phrase..the Lord's _ supper_ " is misleading. Supper denotes an _ evening _ meal, but the word here employed has no such significance, though its first observance was at night. The word denotes...
11:31 ourselves, (n-5) ' _ Judged_ ourselves' is not the same in Greek as ' _ judged_ ,' used later in this ver. and in ver. 32, but as ' _ distinguish_ the Lord's body,' ver. 29. But 'distinguish' d...
PARAPHRASE. 'I wrote of praising you for keeping my ordinances, but I cannot praise you with regard to your Church meetings, which, as now conducted, do you more harm than good. (18) First I hear of t...
JUDGE OURSELVES] realise our true condition. 33, 34. These vv. correct abuses described 1 Corinthians 11:21; 1 Corinthians 11:22. St. Paul regards the Eucharist as, (1) a means of communion with Chri...
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 the...
SERVANTS OF CHRIST 1 CORINTHIANS _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 11 V1 Imitate me, just as I imitate Christ. PROBLEMS ABOUT *WORSHIP 11:2-34 1. MEN AND WOMEN IN *WORSHIP 11:2-16 V2 I praise you because...
(28-32) There are so many modifications required in these verses of the Greek text from which our translation is taken, so as to bring it into harmony with the best MSS., and so many changes needed in...
FOR. — This joins 1 Corinthians 11:31 to 1 Corinthians 11:30, which see. The change to the first person, courteously identifying himself with them, is characteristic of St. Paul....
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 ordi...
Such chastisements may be averted; when they come, it is for our salvation: “If however we discerned (_or_ discriminated: _dijudicaremus_, Vg [1793]) ourselves, we should not be judged”. διακρίνω is t...
§ 38. UNWORTHY PARTICIPANTS OF THE LORD'S BREAD AND CUP. The behaviour of the wealthier Cor [1740] at the Church Supper is scandalous in itself; viewed in the light of the institution and meaning of t...
OBSERVING THE LORD'S SUPPER 1 Corinthians 11:23 There was much disorder in the Corinthian church, because the love-feast, which preceded the Holy Supper, was the scene of riot and conviviality, of os...
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...
The Proper Attitude Is Required Paul stressed the need for the proper attitude in partaking of the Lord's Supper. Irreverence while partaking would have shown a light concern for the sacrifice being r...
For if we would (n) judge ourselves, we should not be judged. (n) Try and examine ourselves, by faith and repentance, separating ourselves from the wicked....
Therefore in punishment of the sin of receiving unworthily, many are infirm, visited with infirmities, even that bring death, which is meant by those words, many sleep. But it is a mercy of God, when...
VIII. DISORDERS IN THE CELEBRATION OF THE LORD'S SUPPER. 11:17-34. The disorder which Paul has just described and combated was a small matter in comparison with that to which he now passes. The style...
“For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep. 31. Now, if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged. 32. But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we sho...
(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 be...
As usual, the introductory words (1 Corinthians 1:1-3) of the epistle give us no little intimation of that which is to follow. The apostle speaks of himself as such "called [to be] an apostle of Jesus...
_SELF-JUDGMENT_ ‘If we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.’ 1 Corinthians 11:31 God is the unerring Judge, but He would rather that men took the work of judgment into their own hands....
31._For if we would judge ourselves _Here we have another remarkable statement — that God does not all of a sudden become enraged against us, so as to inflict punishment immediately upon our sinning,...
Observe here the way in which the apostle grounded his replies with regard to details on the highest and fundamental principles. This is the manner of Christianity (compare Titus 2:10-14). He introduc...
FOR IF WE WOULD JUDGE OURSELVES,.... Examine, try, and prove ourselves as above directed, before we eat and drink; or condemn ourselves, by confessing, acknowledging, and mourning over sin, and by rep...
For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged. Ver. 31. _We should not be judged_] God should be prevented, and the devil put out of office, as having nothing to say against us, but what w...
_But_ That none may be involved in such guilt; _let_ each one _examine himself_ Whether he knows the nature and the design of the institution, and whether it be his sincere desire and purpose thorough...
IF WE WOULD JUDGE OURSELVES; properly examine and decide concerning ourselves. WE SHOULD NOT BE JUDGED; not punished of the Lord....
FOR IF WE WOULD JUDGE OURSELVES, WE SHOULD NOT BE JUDGED....
A final admonition to use care in going to the Sacrament:...
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 i...
BUT IF WE DISCERNED OURSELVES, WE SHOULD NOT BE JUDGED. 'discerned ourselves' -'If you carefully examine yourselves before eating.'(Tay) (1 Corinthians 11:28) If they had only practiced what Paul had...
23-34 The apostle describes the sacred ordinance, of which he had the knowledge by revelation from Christ. As to the visible signs, these are the bread and wine. What is eaten is called bread, though...
This word JUDGE in Scripture signifies all parts of judgment, examining, accusing, condemning, &c.: here it signifies accusing ourselves, condemning ourselves; discriminating ourselves, by the renewin...
But if we discerned ourselves, we should not be judged....
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book I "For there are certainly among us many weak and sickly, and many sleep. But if we judge ourselves, we shall not be judged."[23]...
1 Corinthians 11:31 For G1063 if G1487 judge G1252 (G5707) ourselves G1438 would G302 not G3756 judged G29
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 the...
CRITICISMS AND INSTRUCTIONS WITH REGARD TO THE LORD'S SUPPER IN CHURCH WORSHIP (11:17-33). But Paul's dissatisfaction goes beyond just the covering of the hair and lack of restraint while praying and...
'But if we discerned ourselves, we should not be judged (krino). But when we are judged (krino), we are chastened of the Lord, that we may not be condemned (katakrino) with the world.' These things (t...
The immediate object of this section is to denounce certain gross disorders in the celebration of this ordinance which had crept into the Corinthian church; but this gives occasion to so comprehensive...
1 Corinthians 11:31. BUT [1] IF WE DISCERNED OURSELVES, WE SHOULD NOT BE JUDGED. ‘If we did but take the case of our spiritual condition faithfully into our own hands, we should thus take it (so to sp...
BUT IF WE DISCERNED OURSELVES (ε δε εαυτους διεκρινομεν). This condition of the second class, determined as unfulfilled, assumes that they had not been judging themselves discriminatingly, else the...
JUDGE Self-judgment is not so much the believer's moral condemnation of his own ways or habits, or of himself, for allowing such ways. Self-judgment avoids chastisement. If neglected, the Lord judges...
1 Corinthians 11:20. _When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord's supper. For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper: and one is hungry, and another i...
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...
1 Corinthians 11:18. For first of all, when ye come together in the church, I hear that there be divisions among you; and I partly believe it. For there must be also heresies among you, that they whic...
1 Corinthians 11:20. _When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord's supper. For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper, and one is hungry, and another i...
1 Corinthians 11:20. _When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord's supper. For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper: and one is hungry, and another i...
CONTENTS: Christian order and the Lord's supper. Meaning of the Lord's table. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Paul. CONCLUSION: The Lord's supper is a memorial of His finished atonement, a parable of His pr...
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 3:6
IF WE WOULD EXAMINE OURSELVES FIRST. As sensible people we can each examine ourselves, using God's Word as the _yardstick._ In this way we can correct our own lives and avoid God's judgement....
_For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep._ THE PUNISHMENT FOR UNWORTHY PARTAKING I. The punishment. Here are three steps to the grave: weakness, sickness, temporal death. 1...
_Whosoever shall eat … and drink … unworthily shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord._ EATING AND DRINKING UNWORTHILY I. The sin consists in doing it-- 1. Ignorantly. 2. Irreverently....
CHAPTER 11 SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER The Apostle proceeds to deal with the third point put before him, that of the veiling of women; for the Corinthians had asked of S. Paul whether or no women ought t...
_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 to be t...
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," he sets for...
Shall we turn in our Bibles now to I Corinthians 11. Paul here in the first verse said, Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ (1 Corinthians 11:1). In the previous verse he spoke about h...
1 Corinthians 11:28; 1 John 1:9; Jeremiah 31:18; Luke 15:18;...
We would judge [δ ι ε κ ρ ι ν ο μ ε ν]. An illustration of the confusion in rendering referred to under ver. 29. This is the same word as discerning in ver. 29, but the A. V. recognizes no distinction...
If we would judge ourselves — As to our knowledge, and the design with which we approach the Lord's table. We should not be thus judged — That is, punished by God....
That is, if we would examine, try, censure, and sentence ourselves, and so come to the Lord's table as penitent believers, with. purity of aim, and. sincere intention; we should thereby escape the cas...