1 Corinthians 11:20-21

1 Corinthians 11:20-21. When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord’s supper. For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunken.

They seem to have brought their own provisions to the assembly, and to have made a feast thereof, and they even thought that was an observance of the Lord’s supper. They differed in social position; and, consequently, one had little and another much, and some even went to excess so that they were actually "drunken." Paul might well rebuke such unseemly conduct.