Command 42: Take, Eat, and Drink
Bible verses for meditation
In addition to meditation on Matthew 26:26–27, meditating on the verses below will provide you with further insight and understanding of Christ’s command: Take, Eat, and Drink.
Psalm 139:23–24
“Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.”
I Corinthians 11:28–30
“But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup. For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body. For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.”
II Corinthians 13:5
“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?”
Galatians 6:3–4
“For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself. But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.”
Psalm 26:2
“Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; try my reins and my heart.”
Lamentations 3:40
“Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.”