So let's keep celebrating the festival, neither with old yeast nor with yeast that is evil and wicked, but with yeast-free bread that is both sincere and true.

The cup of blessing that we bless is our fellowship in the blood of the Messiah, isn't it? The bread that we break is our fellowship in the body of the Messiah, isn't it?

For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you how the Lord Jesus, on the night he was betrayed, took a loaf of bread,

For as often as you eat this bread and drink from this cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes.

Therefore, whoever eats the bread or drinks from the cup in an unworthy manner will be held responsible for the Lord's body and blood.

A person must examine himself and then eat the bread and drink from the cup,

For the body does not consist of only one part, but of many.

If the foot says, "Since I'm not a hand, I'm not part of the body," that does not make it any less a part of the body, does it?

And if the ear says, "Since I'm not an eye, I'm not part of the body," that does not make it any less a part of the body, does it?

Now if all of it were one part, there wouldn't be a body, would there?

If one part suffers, every part suffers with it. If one part is praised, every part rejoices with it.

Love is always patient; love is always kind; love is never envious or arrogant with pride. Nor is she conceited,

I face death every day! That is as certain, brothers, as it is that I am proud of you in the Messiah, Jesus our Lord.