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1 Corinthians 11:21-23
New Catholic Bible
1 Corinthians 11:21-23
New Catholic Bible
21 for each of you goes ahead with his own supper, and one goes hungry while another has too much to drink. 22 Do you not have homes in which you can eat and drink? Or do you have such contempt for the Church of God that you humiliate those who have nothing? What should I say to you? Should I praise you? In this matter, I cannot praise you.
23 You Proclaim the Death of the Lord.[a]For what I received from the Lord I handed on to you: the Lord Jesus, on the night he was betrayed, took bread,
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- 1 Corinthians 11:23 This is the earliest written New Testament account of the institution of the Eucharist. The words over the bread and the cup stress the Lord’s self-giving, and the words “Do this in remembrance of me” command Christians to repeat his action.
