Misinterpretations often lead people to view this verse as a blanket prohibition against any eating or meals during church assemblies, forbidding modern practices like potlucks or agape feasts, or as Paul abolishing the Lord's Supper entirely rather than correcting specific abuses of inequality and factionalism; others mistakenly apply it to justify rigid separation of communion from fellowship meals, ignoring the historical context of the full love feast in early church practice.
I Corinthians 11:20
King James Version (1769)
20 When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord’s supper.
Paul rebukes the Corinthian church for turning their communal gatherings into divisive, self-indulgent feasts where social divisions led to some overeating and drunkenness while others went hungry, stating that such practices nullify the sacred observance of the Lord's Supper, which is meant to foster unity, remembrance of Christ's sacrifice, and love for one another.