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So Don’t Partake of It In a Manner Unworthy of What He Did: Examine Yourselves

27 So then, whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord unworthily[a] shall be guilty[b] of the body and the blood of the Lord. 28 But let a person examine himself, and in this manner let him eat of the bread and drink of the cup. 29 For the one eating and drinking while not rightly-judging the body[c] is eating and drinking judgment[d] on himself.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 11:27 That is, in a manner unworthy of the Lord, such as what the Corinthians were doing, v 18-22.
  2. 1 Corinthians 11:27 Or, liable for, answerable for.
  3. 1 Corinthians 11:29 That is, the Lord’s body being remembered by eating the bread; and thus, treating this Supper as common and failing to examine themselves in light of the full meaning of it. Or, the church, your fellow believers; and thus, failing to properly honor those with whom you are partaking.
  4. 1 Corinthians 11:29 That is, discipline, as Paul says in v 32.

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