Twentieth_Century(i)
20 When you meet together, as I understand, it is not possible to eat the Lord's Supper;
21 For, as you eat, each of you tries to secure his own supper first, with the result that one has too little to eat, and another has too much to drink!
22 Have you no houses in which you can eat and drink? Or are you trying to show your contempt for the Church of God, and to humiliate the poor? What can I say to you? Shall I praise you? In this matter I cannot praise you.
23 For I myself received from the Lord the account which I have in turn given to you-how the Lord Jesus, on the very night of his betrayal, took some bread,
24 And, after saying the thanksgiving, broke it and said "This is my own body given on your behalf. Do this in memory of me."
25 And in the same way with the cup, after supper, saying "This cup is the new Covenant made by my blood. Do this, whenever you drink it, in memory of me."
26 For whenever you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death-till he comes.
27 Therefore, whoever eats the bread, or drinks the Lord's cup, in an irreverent spirit, will have to answer for an offence against the Lord's body and blood.
28 Let each man look into his own heart, and only then eat of the bread and drink from the cup.
29 For the man who eats and drinks brings a judgment upon himself by his eating and drinking, when he does not discern the body.
30 That is why so many among you are weak and ill, and why some are sleeping.
31 But, if we judged ourselves rightly, we should not be judged.
32 Yet, in being judged by the Lord, we are undergoing discipline, so that we may not have judgment passed upon us with the rest of the world.
33 Therefore, my Brothers, when you meet together to eat the Supper, wait for one another.
34 If a man is hungry, let him eat at home, so that your meetings may not bring a judgment upon you. The other details I will settle when I come.