And this is my answer to them that call me to account: have we not power to eat and to drink?

and did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of the spiritual rock that followed them: and that rock was an emblem of Christ.

And be ye not idolaters, as some of them were; as it is written, "The people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play."

And I would not have you partakers with demons. Ye cannot drink of the cup of the Lord, and the cup of demons: ye cannot be partakers of the table of the Lord, and of the table of demons.

Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.

What! have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or do ye despise the church of God, and shame those that have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I praise you not.

And in the same manner He took the cup, after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant ratified in my blood: this do, as often as ye drink of it, in remembrance of me."

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

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

so also is the mystical body of Christ; for by one Spirit we are all baptized into one body, (whether Jews or Greeks, slaves or free) and are all made to drink into one Spirit:

If, to speak as a man, I fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantage have I, if the dead rise not? Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die. ---