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Do you not have houses in which to eat and drink? Or do you despise the church of God and shame those who have nothing? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you? In this I will not praise you. <p><font color="#000000"><b><i>The Lords Supper</i></b></font><p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/11-23.htm" target="_top"><b>23</b></a></span>For I received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus in the night in which He was betrayed took bread; <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/11-24.htm" target="_top"><b>24</b></a></span>and when He had given thanks, He broke it and said, This is My body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of Me. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/11-25.htm" target="_top"><b>25</b></a></span>In the same way <i>He took</i> the cup also after supper, saying, This cup is the new covenant in My blood; do this, as often as you drink <i>it,</i> in remembrance of Me. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/11-26.htm" target="_top"><b>26</b></a></span>For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lords death until He comes. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/11-27.htm" target="_top"><b>27</b></a></span>Therefore whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner, shall be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/11-28.htm" target="_top"><b>28</b></a></span>But a man must examine himself, and in so doing he is to eat of the bread and drink of the cup. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/11-29.htm" target="_top"><b>29</b></a></span>For he who eats and drinks, eats and drinks judgment to himself if he does not judge the body rightly. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/11-30.htm" target="_top"><b>30</b></a></span>For this reason many among you are weak and sick, and a number sleep. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/11-31.htm" target="_top"><b>31</b></a></span>But if we judged ourselves rightly, we would not be judged. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/11-32.htm" target="_top"><b>32</b></a></span>But when we are judged, we are disciplined by the Lord so that we will not be condemned along with the world. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/11-33.htm" target="_top"><b>33</b></a></span>So then, my brethren, when you come together to eat, wait for one another. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/11-34.htm" target="_top"><b>34</b></a></span>If anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, so that you will not come together for judgment. The remaining matters I will arrange when I come. <p><br /><br /><a href="//www.lockman.org" target="_top">NASB ©1995</a><div class="vheading2">Parallel Verses</div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/1_corinthians/11.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />When therefore ye assemble yourselves together, it is not possible to eat the Lord's supper:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/1_corinthians/11.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />When you come therefore together into one place, it is not now to eat the Lord's supper. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/dbt/1_corinthians/11.htm">Darby Bible Translation</a></span><br />When ye come therefore together into one place, it is not to eat the Lord's supper.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/1_corinthians/11.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />When therefore ye assemble yourselves together, it is not possible to eat the Lord's supper:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/1_corinthians/11.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />When therefore ye come together in one place, this is not to eat the Lord's supper.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wey/1_corinthians/11.htm">Weymouth New Testament</a></span><br />When, however, you meet in one place, there is no eating the Supper of the Lord;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/1_corinthians/11.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />When therefore you assemble yourselves together, it is not the Lord's supper that you eat.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/1_corinthians/11.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> ye, then, coming together at the same place -- it is not to eat the Lord's supper;<div class="vheading2">Library</div><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/luther/epistle_sermons_vol_ii/second_sunday_before_lent.htm">Second Sunday Before Lent</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Text: Second Corinthians 11, 19-33; 12, 1-9. 19 For ye bear with the foolish gladly, being wise yourselves. 20 For ye bear with a man, if he bringeth you into bondage, if he devoureth you, if he taketh you captive, if he exalteth himself, if he smiteth you on the face. 21 I speak by way of disparagement, as though we had been weak. Yet whereinsoever any is bold (I speak in foolishness), I am bold also. 22 Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/luther/epistle_sermons_vol_ii/second_sunday_before_lent.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Martin Luther—</span><span class="citation2">Epistle Sermons, Vol. II</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/romans_corinthians_to_ii_corinthians_chap_v/in_remembrance_of_me.htm"> 'In Remembrance of Me'</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'This do in remembrance of Me.'--1 COR. xi. 24. The account of the institution of the Lord's Supper, contained in this context, is very much the oldest extant narrative of that event. It dates long before any of the Gospels, and goes up, probably, to somewhere about five and twenty years after the Crucifixion. It presupposes a previous narrative which had been orally delivered to the Corinthians, and, as the Apostle alleges, was derived by him from Christ Himself. It is intended to correct corruptions <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/romans_corinthians_to_ii_corinthians_chap_v/in_remembrance_of_me.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Romans, Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V)</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/lee/sermons_on_various_important_subjects/sermon_xxviii_the_danger_of.htm">The Danger of Deviating from Divine Institutions. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">"Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ." St. Paul was the apostle of the Gentiles. The care of the churches gathered among them devolved particularly on him. At the writing of this epistle he had no personal acquaintance with the church to which it is addressed.* Epaphras, a bishop of the Colossians, then his fellow prisoner at Rome, had made him acquainted with their state, and the danger <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/lee/sermons_on_various_important_subjects/sermon_xxviii_the_danger_of.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Andrew Lee et al—</span><span class="citation2">Sermons on Various Important Subjects</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_1_1855/the_remembrance_of_christ.htm">The Remembrance of Christ</a><br></span><span class="snippet">The cause of this is very apparent: it lies in one or two facts. We forget Christ, because regenerate persons as we really are, still corruption and death remain even in the regenerate. We forget him because we carry about with us the old Adam of sin and death. If we were purely new-born creatures, we should never forget the name of him whom we love. If we were entirely regenerated beings, we should sit down and meditate on all our Saviour did and suffered; all he is; all he has gloriously promised <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_1_1855/the_remembrance_of_christ.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Charles Haddon Spurgeon—</span><span class="citation2">Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 1: 1855</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/arnold/the_christian_life/lecture_xxx_1_corinthians_xi.htm">1 Corinthians xi. 26</a><br></span><span class="snippet">For as often as ye eat this bread and drink this cup, ye do show the Lord's death till he come. When I spoke last Sunday of the benefits yet to be derived from Christ's Church, I spoke of them, as being, for the most part, three in number--our communion in prayer, our communion in reading the Scriptures, and our communion in the Lord's Supper; and, after having spoken of the first two of these, I proposed to leave the third for our consideration to-day. The words of the text are enough to show <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/arnold/the_christian_life/lecture_xxx_1_corinthians_xi.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Thomas Arnold—</span><span class="citation2">The Christian Life</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/cunningham/the_ordinance_of_covenanting/chapter_xiv_covenanting_recommended_by.htm">Covenanting Recommended by the Practice of the New Testament Church. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">The approved practice of the Church of God in Covenanting, is recommended to us by these two things,--that it displays a voluntary regard to his will, and that it exhibits his power accomplishing his purpose. The example of the people of God, while they walk in all his ordinances and commandments blameless, is a warranted motive to duty. "Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ."[778] Their practice in the discharge of the duty of Covenanting, accordingly, is worthy of imitation. Were <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/cunningham/the_ordinance_of_covenanting/chapter_xiv_covenanting_recommended_by.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Cunningham—</span><span class="citation2">The Ordinance of Covenanting</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/bayly/the_practice_of_piety/meditations_for_the_sick.htm">Meditations for the Sick. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">Whilst thy sickness remains, use often, for thy comfort, these few meditations, taken from the ends wherefore God sendeth afflictions to his children. Those are ten. 1. That by afflictions God may not only correct our sins past, but also work in us a deeper loathing of our natural corruptions, and so prevent us from falling into many other sins, which otherwise we would commit; like a good father, who suffers his tender babe to scorch his finger in a candle, that he may the rather learn to beware <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/bayly/the_practice_of_piety/meditations_for_the_sick.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Lewis Bayly—</span><span class="citation2">The Practice of Piety</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/luther/first_principles_of_the_reformation/iii_on_the_babylonish_captivity.htm">On the Babylonish Captivity of the Church on the Babylonish Captivity of the Church. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">Jesus. Martin Luther, of the Order of St. Augustine, salutes his friend Hermann Tulichius. Whether I will or not, I am compelled to become more learned day by day, since so many great masters vie with each other in urging me on and giving me practice. I wrote about indulgences two years ago, but now I extremely regret having published that book. At that time I was still involved in a great and superstitious respect for the tyranny of Rome, which led me to judge that indulgences were not to be totally <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/luther/first_principles_of_the_reformation/iii_on_the_babylonish_captivity.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Martin Luther—</span><span class="citation2">First Principles of the Reformation</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/luther/first_principles_of_the_reformation/concerning_the_lords_supper.htm">Concerning the Lord's Supper</a><br></span><span class="snippet">There are two passages which treat in the clearest manner of this subject, and at which we shall look,--the statements in the Gospels respecting the Lord's Supper, and the words of Paul. (1 Cor. xi.) Matthew, Mark, and Luke agree that Christ gave the whole sacrament to all His disciples; and that Paul taught both parts of it is so certain, that no one has yet been shameless enough to assert the contrary. Add to this, that according to the relation of Matthew, Christ did not say concerning the bread, <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/luther/first_principles_of_the_reformation/concerning_the_lords_supper.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Martin Luther—</span><span class="citation2">First Principles of the Reformation</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/bevan/hymns_of_ter_steegen_suso_and_others/the_secret_of_the_lord.htm">The Secret of the Lord</a><br></span><span class="snippet">T. P. I Cor. xi. 9; Eph. v. 23 In the depths of His bright glory, Where the heavens rejoice, I have seen Him, I have known Him, I have heard His voice. He has told me how He sought me In the cloudy day, On the waste and lonely mountains Very far away. Words unutterable He speaketh, Words that none can tell; Yet, O Lord, Thy wondrous secret Knows my heart full well. I, in wonder and in silence, Listen and adore, Whilst the heart of God He tells me-- Whilst my cup runs o'er. Blessed light, within <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/bevan/hymns_of_ter_steegen_suso_and_others/the_secret_of_the_lord.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Frances Bevan—</span><span class="citation2">Hymns of Ter Steegen, Suso, and Others</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/cyril/lectures_of_s_cyril_of_jerusalem/lecture_xxii_on_the_mysteries.htm">(On the Mysteries. Iv. )</a><br></span><span class="snippet">On the Body and Blood of Christ. 1 Cor. xi. 23 I received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, how that the Lord Jesus, in the night in which He was betrayed, took bread, &c. 1. Even of itself [2445] the teaching of the Blessed Paul is sufficient to give you a full assurance concerning those Divine Mysteries, of which having been deemed worthy, ye are become of the same body [2446] and blood with Christ. For you have just heard him say distinctly, That our Lord Jesus Christ in the <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/cyril/lectures_of_s_cyril_of_jerusalem/lecture_xxii_on_the_mysteries.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">St. Cyril of Jerusalem—</span><span class="citation2">Lectures of S. 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