1 Corinthians 11:31 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³¹For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.

1 Corinthians 11:31 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 John 1:9
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Psalms 32:3-5
When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long. …
1 Corinthians 11:28
But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup.
Revelation 2:5
Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.
Luke 15:18-20
I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee, …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 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 fro…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 31)

31. if we would judge ourselves--Most of the oldest manuscripts, read “But,” not “For.” Translate also literally “If we duly judged ourselves, we should not be (or not have been) judged,” that is, we should escape (or have escaped) our present judgments. In order to duly judge or “discern [appreciate] the Lord’s body,” we need to “duly judge ourselves.” A prescient warning against the dogma of pri…