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| Book of 1 Corinthians |
| Chapter 11 - Read Chapter |
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- 11:17 - [In Context]
- In the things I tell you now I don't praise you. Your meetings hurt you more than they help you.
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- 11:18 - [In Context]
- First, I hear that when you meet together as a church you are divided. And I believe some of this.
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- 11:19 - [In Context]
- (It is necessary for there to be differences among you. That is the way to make it clear which ones of you are really doing right.)
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- 11:20 - [In Context]
- When you all come together, you are not really eating the Lord's Supper. F80
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- 11:21 - [In Context]
- Why? Because when you eat, each person eats without waiting for the others. Some people don't get enough to eat {or drink}, while other people {have so much that they} become drunk.
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- 11:22 - [In Context]
- You can eat and drink in your own homes! It seems that you think God's church (people) is not important. You embarrass those people that are poor. What should I tell you? Should I praise you for doing this? I don't praise you.
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- 11:23 - [In Context]
- The teaching that I gave you is the same teaching that I received from the Lord: On the night when Jesus was given to be killed, he took bread
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- 11:24 - [In Context]
- and gave thanks for it. Then he divided the bread and said, "This is my body; it is for you. Eat this to remember me."
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- 11:25 - [In Context]
- In the same way, after they ate, Jesus took the cup of wine. Jesus said, "This wine shows the new agreement {from God to his people}. This new agreement begins with my blood (death). When you drink this, do it to remember me."
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- 11:26 - [In Context]
- Every time you eat this bread and drink this cup, you make known the Lord's death until he comes.
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- 11:27 - [In Context]
- So if a person eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in a way that is not worthy of it, then that person is sinning against the body and the blood of the Lord.
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- 11:28 - [In Context]
- Every person should look into his own heart before he eats the bread and drinks the cup.
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- 11:29 - [In Context]
- If a person eats {the bread} and drinks {the cup} without recognizing the body, then that person is judged guilty by eating and drinking.
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- 11:30 - [In Context]
- That is why many in your group are sick and weak. And many have died.
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- 11:31 - [In Context]
- But if we judged ourselves in the right way, then God would not judge us.
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- 11:32 - [In Context]
- But when the Lord judges us, he punishes us to show us the right way. He does this so that we will not be condemned with {the other people in} the world.
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- 11:33 - [In Context]
- So, my brothers and sisters, when you come together to eat, wait for each other.
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- 11:34 - [In Context]
- If a person is {too} hungry to wait, then he should eat at home. Do this so that your meeting together will not bring God's judgment on you. I will tell you what to do about the other things when I come.
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FOOTNOTES: F80: Lord's Supper The special meal Jesus told his followers to eat to remember him. See Lk. 22:14-20.
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