¹⁷But in prescribing to you on this which I now enter on, I do not praise, namely, that ye come together, not for the better, but for the worse. ¹⁸For first, when ye come together in assembly, I hear there exist divisions among you, and I partly give credit to it. ¹⁹For there must also be sects among you, that the approved may become manifest among you. ²⁰When ye come therefore together into one place, it is not to eat the Lord’s supper. ²¹For each one in eating takes his own supper before others, and one is hungry and another drinks to excess. ²²Have ye not then houses for eating and drinking? or do ye despise the assembly of God, and put to shame them who have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you? In this point I do not praise.

²³For I received from the Lord, that which I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus, in the night in which he was delivered up, took bread, ²⁴and having given thanks broke it, and said, This is my body, which is for you: this do in remembrance of me. ²⁵In like manner also the cup, after having supped, saying, This cup is the new covenant in my blood: this do, as often as ye shall drink it, in remembrance of me. ²⁶For as often as ye shall eat this bread, and drink the cup, ye announce the death of the Lord, until he come. ²⁷So that whosoever shall eat the bread, or drink the cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty in respect of the body and of the blood of the Lord. ²⁸But let a man prove himself, and thus eat of the bread, and drink of the cup. ²⁹For the eater and drinker eats and drinks judgment to himself, not distinguishing the body. ³⁰On this account many among you are weak and infirm, and a good many are fallen asleep. ³¹But if we judged ourselves, so were we not judged. ³²But being judged, we are disciplined of the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.

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