²⁰ But now, when you come together, it is not possible to take the holy meal of the Lord:

^{21 Ref} For when you take your food, everyone takes his meal before the other; and one has not enough food, and another is the worse for drink.

^{22 Ref} What? have you not houses to take your meals in? or have you no respect for the church of God, putting the poor to shame? What am I to say to you? am I to give you praise? certainly not.

^{23 Ref} For it was handed down to me from the Lord, as I gave it to you, that the Lord Jesus, on the night when Judas was false to him, took bread,

^{24 Ref} And when it had been broken with an act of praise, he said, This is my body which is for you: do this in memory of me.

^{25 Ref} In the same way, with the cup, after the meal, he said, This cup is the new testament in my blood: do this, whenever you take it, in memory of me.

^{26 Ref} For whenever you take the bread and the cup you give witness to the Lord's death till he comes.