“For this cause many among you are weak and sickly, and not a few sleep.”
— WEB
1 Corinthians 11:30
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“For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.”
— KJV
“For this cause many among you are weak and sickly, and not a few sleep.”
— ASV
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Commentary
weak . . . sickly--He is "weak" who has naturally no strength: "sickly," who has lost his strength by disease [TITTMANN, Greek Synonyms of the New Testament]. sleep--are being lulled in death: not a violent death; but one the result of sickness, sent as the Lord's chastening for the individual's salvation, the mind being brought to a right state on the sick bed (Co1 11:31).
— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (public domain)
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