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1 Corinthians 11:27
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25 In the same manner He also took the cup after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in My blood. This do, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me.”
26 For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death atill He comes.  

Examine Yourself

27 Therefore whoever eats athis bread or drinks this cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of the body and1 blood of the Lord.  
28 But alet a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread and drink of the cup.  
29 For he who eats and drinks1 in an unworthy manner eats and drinks judgment to himself, not discerning the2 Lord’s body.  
30 For this reason many are weak and sick among you, and many1 sleep.  
31 For aif we would judge ourselves, we would not be judged.  
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Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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1 Corinthians 11:27

eat and drink—So one of the oldest manuscripts reads. But three or four equally old manuscripts, the Vulgate and CYPRIAN, read, "or." Romanists quote this reading in favor of communion in one kind. This consequence does not follow. Paul says, "Whosoever is guilty of unworthy conduct, either in eating the bread, or in drinking the cup, is guilty of the body and blood of Christ." Impropriety in only one of the two elements, vitiates true communion in both. Therefore, in the end of the verse, he says, not "body or blood," but "body and blood." Any who takes the bread without the wine, or the wine without the bread, "unworthily" communicates, and so "is guilty of Christ's body and blood"; for he disobeys Christ's express command to partake of both. If we do not partake of the sacramental symbol of the Lord's death worthily, we share in the guilt of that death. (Compare "crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh," Hebrews 6:6). Unworthiness in the person, is not what ought to exclude any, but unworthily communicating: However unworthy we be, if we examine ourselves so as to find that we penitently believe in Christ's Gospel, we may worthily communicate.




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