17In giving this order I do not praise you, because you assemble not for the better but for the worse.18For first, when you assemble as a church, I hear that there are divisions among you, and in part I believe it.19For there must also be factions among you, so that those who are approved may become evident among you.20Therefore when you assemble together it is not to eat the Lord's supper.21For each one takes his own supper beforehand when eating, and one goes hungry while another gets drunk.22Do you not have houses in which to eat and drink? Or do you despise the church of God and humiliate those who have nothing? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you? In this I do not praise you.23For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread.24And when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, "This is my body which is for you; do this in remembrance of me."25In the same way also the cup, after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood; do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me."26For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the death of the Lord until he comes.27Therefore whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.28Let a person examine himself, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup.29For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment on himself.30That is why many of you are weak and ill, and some have fallen asleep.31But if we judged ourselves truly, we would not be judged.32But when we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined so that we may not be condemned along with the world.33So then, my brothers, when you come together to eat, wait for one another.34If anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, so that when you come together it will not be for judgment. About the other matters I will give directions when I come.