But with the greater part of them God was displeased: for they were destroyed in the wilderness.

---The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? the bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?

For the bread is one, and we though many are one body; for we all partake of that one bread.

For I received from the Lord, that which I also delivered unto you, that the Lord Jesus the same night in which He was betrayed took bread:

As often then as ye eat of this bread, and drink of this cup, ye commemorate the Lord's death till he come.

So that whosoever eateth this bread, or drinketh of the cup of the Lord unworthily, shall be guilty of profaning the body and blood of the Lord.

But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of this bread and drink of this cup:

For now we know but in part, and we prophesy but in part.

For we see now as through a mirror obscurely: but then we shall see face to face. Now I know but in part, but then I shall know even as I am known.

after that He appeared to above five hundred brethren at once, of whom the greater part remain yet alive, but some are fallen asleep.