What Does 1 Corinthians 11:34 Mean in the King James?
And if any man hunger, let him eat at home; that ye come not together unto condemnation. And the rest will I set in order when I come.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The gathering becomes a verdict when appetite replaces discernment of the body.
THE MEANING
Hunger has a place at home, while the gathered table carries consequences for the whole body. When appetite governs the gathering, those who come together meet judgment; the remaining matters await the speaker’s presence to be set in order.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
A gathering is not made life-giving merely by bringing people into one place; the way the table is shared can itself become a verdict.
THE ROOT
κρίμα
krima
GROWS FROM
κριν-
krin-
To distinguish or decide; by extension, to judge.
Here “condemnation” carries the sense of a judgment or verdict. The same root family holds both judgment and discernment: κρίνω (krinō) means “judge, decide,” while διακρίνω (diakrinō) means “distinguish, discern”, so the verdict is bound to whether the gathered body is truly seen as a body.
ALSO GROWS
krinō: Judge, decide
κρίνω
It names the act of judgment that becomes a verdict in this verse.
diakrinō: Distinguish, discern
διακρίνω
In 1 Corinthians 11:29, this same root family describes discerning the Lord’s body, linking discernment directly to the judgment named here.
THE PATTERN
At a shared table, food is governed by care for the whole gathered body, not by one person’s appetite alone.
But thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need, in that which he wanteth.And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart,For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread.THE THREAD
For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body.The Greek κρίμα (krima, judgment or verdict) is the same noun rendered “damnation” in 11:29 and “condemnation” in 11:34. The earlier verse names failure to discern the Lord’s body, making the warning about hunger at the gathering part of the same judgment-and-discernment pattern.
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