In the same way He also took the cup after supper and said, “This cup is the new covenant established by My blood; it is shed for you.

Now by the time of supper, the Devil had already put it into the heart of Judas, Simon Iscariot’s son, to betray Him.

So He got up from supper, laid aside His robe, took a towel, and tied it around Himself.

But one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and at once blood and water came out.

So Peter turned around and saw the disciple Jesus loved following them. That disciple was the one who had leaned back against Jesus at the supper and asked, “Lord, who is the one that’s going to betray You?”

But a man named Ananias, with his wife Sapphira, sold a piece of property.

He did not even spare His own Son
but offered Him up for us all;
how will He not also with Him grant us everything?

For if God did not spare the natural branches, He will not spare you either.

However, if you do get married, you have not sinned, and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. But such people will have trouble in this life, and I am trying to spare you.

Therefore, when you come together, it is not really to eat the Lord’s Supper.

For at the meal, each one eats his own supper ahead of others. So one person is hungry while another gets drunk!

In the same way, after supper He also took the cup and said, “This cup is the new covenant established by My blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me.”

I call on God as a witness, on my life, that it was to spare you that I did not come to Corinth.

Now I consider myself in no way inferior to the “super-apostles.”

For if I want to boast, I will not be a fool, because I will be telling the truth. But I will spare you, so that no one can credit me with something beyond what he sees in me or hears from me,

I have become a fool; you forced it on me. I should have been endorsed by you, since I am not in any way inferior to the “super-apostles,” even though I am nothing.

So then, we must not sleep, like the rest, but we must stay awake and be serious.

But since we belong to the day, we must be serious and put the armor of faith and love on our chests, and put on a helmet of the hope of salvation.

Be serious! Be alert! Your adversary the Devil is prowling around like a roaring lion, looking for anyone he can devour.

For if God didn’t spare the angels who sinned but threw them down into Tartarus and delivered them to be kept in chains of darkness until judgment;

and if He didn’t spare the ancient world, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others, when He brought a flood on the world of the ungodly;

Then I saw an angel standing on the sun, and he cried out in a loud voice, saying to all the birds flying high overhead, “Come, gather together for the great supper of God,