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1 Corinthians - ch 11 v 21 - 34
- For when you take your food, everyone takes his meal before the other; and one has not enough food, and another is the worse for drink.
- What? have you not houses to take your meals in? or have you no respect for the church of God, putting the poor to shame? What am I to say to you? am I to give you praise? certainly not.
- For it was handed down to me from the Lord, as I gave it to you, that the Lord Jesus, on the night when Judas was false to him, took bread,
- And when it had been broken with an act of praise, he said, This is my body which is for you: do this in memory of me.
- In the same way, with the cup, after the meal, he said, This cup is the new testament in my blood: do this, whenever you take it, in memory of me.
- For whenever you take the bread and the cup you give witness to the Lord's death till he comes.
- If, then, anyone takes the bread or the cup of the Lord in the wrong spirit, he will be responsible for the body and blood of the Lord.
- But let no man take of the bread and the cup without testing himself.
- For a man puts himself in danger, if he takes part in the holy meal without being conscious that it is the Lord's body.
- For this cause a number of you are feeble and ill, and a number are dead.
- But if we were true judges of ourselves, punishment would not come on us.
- But if punishment does come, it is sent by the Lord, so that we may be safe when the world is judged.
- So then, my brothers, when you come together to the holy meal of the Lord, let there be waiting for one another.
- If any man is in need of food, let him take his meal in his house; so that you may not come together to your damage. And the rest I will put in order when I come.
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