16. If anyone wants to argue about this ⌊they can’t, because⌋ we don’t have any custom like this—nor do any of the churches of God.
17. I have no praise for you as I instruct you in the following matter: When you gather, it results in more harm than good.
18. In the first place, I hear that when you gather as a church you split up into opposing groups. I believe some of what I hear.
19. Factions have to exist in order to make it clear who the genuine believers among you are.
20. When you gather in the same place, you can’t possibly be eating the Lord’s Supper.
21. Each of you eats his own supper ⌊without waiting for each other⌋. So one person goes hungry and another gets drunk.
22. Don’t you have homes in which to eat and drink? Do you despise God’s church and embarrass people who don’t have anything to eat? What can I say to you? Should I praise you? I won’t praise you for this.
23. After all, I passed on to you what I had received from the Lord.On the night he was betrayed, the Lord Jesus took bread
24. and spoke a prayer of thanksgiving. He broke the bread and said, “This is my body, which is given for you. Do this to remember me.”