With this in mind, individuals must determine whether what they are doing is proper when they eat the bread and drink from the cup.
Let us look closely at our ways and examine them and then return to the Lord.
Now, this is what the Lord of Armies says: Carefully consider your ways!
This is what the Lord of Armies says: Carefully consider your ways!
Feeling deeply hurt, they asked him one by one, “You don’t mean me, do you, Lord?”
Anyone who eats and drinks is eating and drinking a judgment against himself when he doesn’t recognize the Lord’s body.
If we were judging ourselves correctly, we would not be judged.
Examine yourselves to see whether you are still in the Christian faith. Test yourselves! Don’t you recognize that you are people in whom Jesus Christ lives? Could it be that you’re failing the test?
Each of you must examine your own actions. Then you can be proud of your own accomplishments without comparing yourself to others.