1 Corinthians 10:16
Good News Translation
The cup we use in the Lord's Supper and for which we give thanks to God: when we drink from it, we are sharing in the blood of Christ. And the bread we break: when we eat it, we are sharing in the body of Christ.

New Revised Standard Version
The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a sharing in the blood of Christ? The bread that we break, is it not a sharing in the body of Christ?

Contemporary English Version
When we drink from the cup we ask God to bless, isn't that sharing in the blood of Christ? When we eat the bread we break, isn't that sharing in the body of Christ?

New American Bible
The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a participation in the blood of Christ? The bread that we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ?

Douay-Rheims Bible
The chalice of benediction which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? And the bread which we break, is it not the partaking of the body of the Lord?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The chalice of benediction which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? And the bread which we break, is it not the partaking of the body of the Lord?

cup.

1 Corinthians 10:21 You cannot drink the chalice of the Lord and the chalice of devils: you cannot be partakers of the table of the Lord and of the table of devils.

1 Corinthians 11:23-29 For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, that the Lord Jesus, the same night in which he was betrayed, took bread, . . .

Matthew 26:26-28 And whilst they were at supper, Jesus took bread and blessed and broke and gave to his disciples and said: Take ye and eat. This is my body. . . .

Mark 14:22-25 And whilst they were eating, Jesus took bread; and blessing, broke and gave to them and said: Take ye. This is my body. . . .

Luke 22:19,20 And taking bread, he gave thanks and brake and gave to them, saying: This is my body, which is given for you. Do this for a commemoration of me. . . .

the communion of the blood.

1 Corinthians 10:20 But the things which the heathens sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils and not to God. And I would not that you should be made partakers with devils.

1 Corinthians 1:9 God is faithful: by whom you are called unto the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

1 Corinthians 12:13 For in one Spirit were we all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Gentiles, whether bond or free: and in one Spirit we have all been made to drink.

John 6:53-58 Then Jesus said to them: Amen, amen, I say unto you: except you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you shall not have life in you. . . .

Hebrews 3:14 For we are made partakers of Christ: yet so, if we hold the beginning of his substance firm unto the end.

1 John 1:3,7 That which we have seen and have heard, we declare unto you: that you also may have fellowship with us and our fellowship may be with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ. . . .

The bread.

1 Corinthians 11:23,24 For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, that the Lord Jesus, the same night in which he was betrayed, took bread, . . .

Acts 2:42,46 And they were persevering in the doctrine of the apostles and in the communication of the breaking of bread and in prayers. . . .

Acts 20:7,11 And on the first day of the week, when we were assembled to break bread, Paul discoursed with them, being to depart on the morrow. And he continued his speech until midnight. . . .

Context
Flee from Idolatry
15I speak as to wise men: judge ye yourselves what I say. 16The chalice of benediction which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? And the bread which we break, is it not the partaking of the body of the Lord? 17For we, being many, are one bread, one body: all that partake of one bread.…
Cross References
Matthew 26:26
And whilst they were at supper, Jesus took bread and blessed and broke and gave to his disciples and said: Take ye and eat. This is my body.

Matthew 26:27
And taking the chalice, he gave thanks and gave to them, saying: Drink ye all of this.

Mark 14:23
And having taken the chalice, giving thanks, he gave it to them. And they all drank of it.

Luke 22:17
And having taken the chalice, he gave thanks and said: Take and divide it among you.

Luke 22:19
And taking bread, he gave thanks and brake and gave to them, saying: This is my body, which is given for you. Do this for a commemoration of me.

Luke 22:20
In like manner, the chalice also, after he had supped, saying: This is the chalice, the new testament in my blood, which shall be shed for you.

Acts 2:42
And they were persevering in the doctrine of the apostles and in the communication of the breaking of bread and in prayers.

Acts 2:46
And continuing daily with one accord in the temple and breaking bread from house to house, they took their meat with gladness and simplicity of heart:

1 Corinthians 10:15
I speak as to wise men: judge ye yourselves what I say.

1 Corinthians 11:23
For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, that the Lord Jesus, the same night in which he was betrayed, took bread,

1 Corinthians 11:25
In like manner also the chalice, after he had supped, saying: This chalice is the new testament in my blood. This do ye, as often as you shall drink, for the commemoration of me.

1 Corinthians 10:15
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