1 Corinthians 11:23 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Corinthians 11:23-34

To rectify these gross corruptions and irregularities, the apostle sets the sacred institution here to view. This should be the rule in the reformation of all abuses. I. He tells us how he came by the knowledge of it. He was not among the apostles at the first institution; but he had received from the Lord what he delivered to them, Rom. 11:23. He had the knowledge of this matter by revelation from Christ: and what he had received he communicated, without varying from the truth a tittle,... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 1 Corinthians 11:23-33

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 build up. Let no one think only of his own good, but let him think of the good of the other man too. Eat everything that is sold in the market place, and don't ask fussy questions for conscience sake; for the earth and its fulness belong to god. If one of the pagans invites you to a meal, and you are willing to go, eat anything that is put before you, and don't ask questions... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 1 Corinthians 11:23-34

11:23-34 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, "This is my body which is for you; this do that you may remember me." In the same way, after the meal, he took the cup and said, "This cup is the new covenant and it cost my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, so that you will remember me." For as often as you eat this bread and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 11:23

For I have received of the Lord ,.... The apostle observes unto them the rule, use, and end of the Lord's supper; his view in it is, to correct the disorders among them, and to bring them to a strict regard to the rule which had such a divine authority stamped upon it; and to observe to them, that in that supper all equally ate and drank; and that the end of it was not a paschal commemoration, but a remembrance of Christ, and a declaration of his sufferings and death. The divine authority of... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 11:23

I have received of the Lord - It is possible that several of the people at Corinth did receive the bread and wine of the eucharist as they did the paschal bread and wine, as a mere commemoration of an event. And as our Lord had by this institution consecrated that bread and wine, not to be the means of commemorating the deliverance from Egypt, and their joy on the account, but their deliverance from sin and death by his passion and cross; therefore the apostle states that he had received... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 11:23

Verse 23 Hitherto he has been exposing the abuse; (667) now he proceeds to show what is the proper method of rectifying it. For the institution of Christ is a sure rule, so that if you turn aside from it but a very little, you are out of the right course. Hence, as the Corinthians had deviated from this rule, he calls them back to it. It is a passage that ought to be carefully observed, as showing that there is no remedy for correcting and purging out abuses, short of a return to God’s pure... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 11:17-34

Discreditable irregularities at the Eucharist and the agapae. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 11:17-34

Special consideration of the Lord's Supper; uses of self judgment. And what is St. Paul's mood of mind now? "I declare unto you" (command you), and I praise you not, since I hear of "divisions" among you, and "I partly believe it." "Heresies [sects] must be among you," for in the present state of our nature there is no way to develop the good without the evil manifesting itself. The evil has its uses; the evil is not a cause but an occasion of good; the evil is overruled by the Holy... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 11:23

I have received; rather, I received. He thus refers the revelation to some special time, and this seems to point to the conclusion that he is not referring to any account of the institution of the Lord's Supper, which may have been given him by St. Peter or one of the twelve, but to some immediate revelation from Christ. The terms in which he describes the institution of the Eucharist resemble most nearly those of St. Luke, who may very probably have derived his information from St. Paul.... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 11:23

St. Paul's claim to direct revelation "For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you." "The whole structure of the passage seems to imply that what follows had been received by St. Paul directly from Christ, and that he is not appealing to a well known tradition." "The method of communication (whether in a trance, or state of ecstasy, or any other supernatural manner) does not appear to cause either doubt or difficulty to those to whom the apostle conveyed the... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Corinthians 11:23-34

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 1 Corinthians 11:23-33

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 1 Corinthians 11:23-34

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 11:23

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 11:23

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 11:23

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 11:17-34

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 11:17-34

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 11:23

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 11:23

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