Direction in the Lord’s Supper

²⁴and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, “This is my body which is for5 you. Do this in remembrance of me.”6 ²⁵In the same way also he took the cup, after supper, 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 the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes.

²⁷Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty concerning the body and blood of the Lord. ²⁸Let a person examine himself, then, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup. ²⁹For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment on himself. ³⁰That is why many of you are weak and ill, and some have died.7 ³¹But if we judged8 ourselves truly, we would not be judged. ³²But when we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined9 so that we may not be condemned along with the world.

³³So then, my brothers,10 when you come together to eat, wait for11 one another— ³⁴if anyone is hungry, let him eat at home—so that when you come together it will not be for judgment. About the other things I will give directions when I come.