28But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup.
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But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.
Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?
Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath ought against thee; …
Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 23-34)To rectify these gross corruptions and irregularities, the apostle sets the sacred institution here to view. This should be the rule in the reformation of all abuses. I. He tells us how he came by the knowledge of it. He was not among the apostles at the first institution; but he had received from the Lord what he delivered to them , Rom. 11:23. He had the knowledge of this matter by revelation fr…
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