1 Corinthians 11:20–34

²⁰Therefore, when^* you come together in the same place, it is not to eat the Lord’s supper. ²¹For when you^* eat it, each one of you goes ahead to take his own supper, and one is hungry and another is drunk. ²²For do you not have houses for eating and drinking? Or do you despise the church of God and humiliate those who do not have anything? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you? In this I will not praise you!

²³For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you, that the Lord Jesus, on the night in which he was betrayed, took bread, ²⁴and after he^* had given thanks, he broke it and said, “This is my body which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” ²⁵Likewise also the cup, after they had eaten, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.” ²⁶For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes. ²⁷So then, whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord. ²⁸But let a person examine himself, and in this way let him eat from the bread and let him drink from the cup. ²⁹For the one who eats and drinks, if he^* does not recognize the body, eats and drinks judgment against himself. ³⁰Because of this, many are weak and sick among you, and quite a few have died^e. ³¹But if we were evaluating ourselves, we would not be judged. ³²But if we^* are judged by the Lord, we are being disciplined, in order that we will not be condemned with the world.

³³So then, my brothers, when you^* come together in order to eat the Lord’s supper,^* wait for one another. ³⁴If anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, lest you come together for judgment. And I will give directions about the remaining matters whenever I come.