1 Corinthians 11:20-32

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

²⁰ When you come therefore together into one place, it is not now to eat the Lord's supper.

²¹ For every one taketh before his own supper to eat. And one indeed is hungry and another is drunk.

²² What, have you not houses to eat and to drink in? Or despise ye the church of God; and put them to shame that have not? What shall I say to you? Do I praise you? In this I praise you not.

²³ For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, that the Lord Jesus, the same night in which he was betrayed, took bread.

²⁴ And giving thanks, broke, and said: Take ye, and eat: this is my body, which shall be delivered for you: this do for the commemoration of me.

²⁵ In like manner also the chalice, after he had supped, saying: This chalice is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as often as you shall drink, for the commemoration of me.

²⁶ For as often as you shall eat this bread, and drink the chalice, you shall shew the death of the Lord, until he come.

²⁷ Therefore whosoever shall eat this bread, or drink the chalice of the Lord unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and of the blood of the Lord.

²⁸ But let a man prove himself: and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of the chalice.

²⁹ For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh judgment to himself, not discerning the body of the Lord.

³⁰ Therefore are there many infirm and weak among you, and many sleep.

³¹ But if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.

³² But whilst we are judged, we are chastised by the Lord, that we be not condemned with this world.