1 Corinthians 11:28
Good News Translation
So then, you should each examine yourself first, and then eat the bread and drink from the cup.

New Revised Standard Version
Examine yourselves, and only then eat of the bread and drink of the cup.

Contemporary English Version
This is why you must examine the way you eat and drink.

New American Bible
A person should examine himself, and so eat the bread and drink the cup.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But let a man prove himself: and so let him eat of that bread and drink of the chalice.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But let a man prove himself: and so let him eat of that bread and drink of the chalice.

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1 Corinthians 11:31 But if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.

Psalm 26:2-7 Prove me, O Lord, and try me; burn my reins and my heart. . . .

Lamentations 3:40 Nun. Let us search our ways, and seek, and return to the Lord.

Haggai 1:5,7 And now thus saith the Lord of hosts: Set your hearts to consider your ways. . . .

Zechariah 7:5-7 Speak to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying: When you fasted, and mourned in the fifth and the seventh month for these seventy years: did you keep a fast unto me? . . .

2 Corinthians 13:5 Try your own selves if you be in the faith: prove ye yourselves. Know you not your own selves, that Christ Jesus is in you, unless perhaps you be reprobates?

Galatians 6:4 But let every one prove his own work: and so he shall have glory in himself only and not in another.

1 John 3:20,21 For if our heart reprehend us, God is greater than our heart and knoweth all things. . . .

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Numbers 9:10-13 Say to the children of Israel: The man that shall be unclean by occasion of one that is dead, or shall be in a journey afar off in your nation, let him make the phase to the Lord. . . .

Matthew 5:23,24 If therefore thou offer thy gift at the altar, and there thou remember that thy brother hath anything against thee; . . .

Context
Sharing in the Lord's Supper
27Therefore, whosoever shall eat this bread, or drink the chalice of the Lord unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and of the blood of the Lord. 28But let a man prove himself: and so let him eat of that bread and drink of the chalice. 29For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily eateth and drinketh judgment to himself, not discerning the body of the Lord.…
Cross References
Matthew 26:22
And they being very much troubled began every one to say: Is it I, Lord?

1 Corinthians 11:29
For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily eateth and drinketh judgment to himself, not discerning the body of the Lord.

2 Corinthians 13:5
Try your own selves if you be in the faith: prove ye yourselves. Know you not your own selves, that Christ Jesus is in you, unless perhaps you be reprobates?

Galatians 6:4
But let every one prove his own work: and so he shall have glory in himself only and not in another.

1 Corinthians 11:27
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