Personal Relationships

²¹ “^(A)You have heard that ^[a]the ancients were told, ‘^(B)You shall not murder,’ and ‘Whoever commits murder shall be answerable to ^(C)the court.’ ²² But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother shall be answerable to ^(D)the court; and whoever says to his brother, ‘^[b]You good-for-nothing,’ shall be answerable to ^[c](E)the supreme court; and whoever says, ‘You fool,’ shall be guilty enough to go into the ^[d](F)fiery hell. ²³ Therefore, if you are ^(G)presenting your ^[e]offering at the altar, and there you remember that your brother has something against you, ²⁴ leave your ^[f]offering there before the altar and go; first be ^(H)reconciled to your brother, and then come and present your ^[g]offering.

¹⁶ Is the ^(A)cup of blessing which we bless not a sharing in the blood of Christ? Is the ^(B)bread which we break not a sharing in the body of Christ? ¹⁷ Since there is one loaf, we ^(C)who are many are one body; for we all partake of the one loaf.

¹⁸ For, in the first place, when you come together ^[a]as a church, I hear that ^[b](A)divisions exist among you; and in part I believe it.

²⁰ Therefore when you come together it is not to eat the Lord’s Supper,

²⁷ Therefore whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy way, shall be ^(A)guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord. ²⁸ But a person must ^(B)examine himself, and in so doing he is to eat of the bread and drink of the cup. ²⁹ For the one who eats and drinks, eats and drinks judgment to himself if he does not properly recognize the ^[a]body. ³⁰ For this reason many among you are weak and sick, and a number ^[b](C)are asleep. ³¹ But if we judged ourselves rightly, we would not be judged. ³² But when we are judged, we are ^(D)disciplined by the Lord so that we will not be condemned along with ^(E)the world.

³³ So then, my brothers and sisters, when you come together to eat, wait for one another.

²⁴ The one who ^(A)keeps His commandments ^(B)remains in Him, and He in him. ^(C)We know by this that ^(D)He remains in us, by the Spirit whom He has given us.

⁹ By this the love of God was revealed ^[a](A)in us, that ^(B)God has sent His only Son into the world so that we may live through Him. ¹⁰ In this is love, ^(C)not that we loved God, but that ^(D)He loved us and sent His Son to be ^(E)the ^[b]propitiation for our sins. ^11 (F)Beloved, if God so loved us, ^(G)we also ought to love one another.