1 Corinthians 11:17–34

The Lord’s Supper

¹⁷But in giving this instruction, ^aI do not praise you, because you come together not for the better but for the worse.

¹⁸For, in the first place, when you come together ¹as a church, I hear that ^2adivisions exist among you, and in part I believe it.

¹⁹For there ^amust also be factions among you, ^bso that those who are approved may become ¹evident among you.

²⁰Therefore when you meet together in the same place, it is not to eat the Lord’s Supper,

²¹for in your eating each one takes his own supper first, and one is hungry and ^aanother is drunk.

²²For do you not have houses in which to eat and drink? Or do you despise the ^achurch of God and ^bshame those who have nothing? What shall I say to you? Shall ^cI praise you? In this I will not praise you.

²³For ^aI received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you, that ^bthe Lord Jesus in the night in which He was being betrayed took bread,

²⁴and when He had given thanks, He broke it and said, “This is My body, which is for you. Do this in remembrance of Me.”

²⁵In the same way He took ^athe cup also after supper, saying, “This cup is the ^bnew 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 the cup, you proclaim the death of the Lord ^auntil He comes.

²⁷Therefore whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner, shall be ^aguilty of the body and the blood of the Lord.

²⁸But a man must ^atest himself, and in so doing he is to eat of the bread and drink of the cup.

²⁹For he who eats and drinks, eats and drinks judgment to himself if he does not judge the body rightly.

³⁰For this reason many among you are weak and sick, and a number ^1asleep.

³¹But if we judged ourselves rightly, we would not be judged.

³²But when we are judged, we are ^adisciplined by the Lord so that we will not be condemned along with ^bthe world.

³³So then, my brothers, when you come together to eat, wait for one another.

³⁴If anyone is ^ahungry, let him eat ^bat home, so that you will not come together for judgment. The remaining matters I will ^cdirect ^dwhen I come.