1 Corinthians 11:23-27

1 Corinthians 11:23-27. 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: and when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me. After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me. For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord’s death till he come. Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.

Note carefully the wording, of this verse; it is not "Whosoever, being unworthy, shall eat and drink. It is not an adjective, it is an adverb; and relates, not so much to the person, as to the way in which he came to the communion. Those who came to the Lord’s table in a half-drunken fashion, those who regarded it merely as a common meal, those who came there under false pretences, those who came there not thinking of Christ’s body at all; they would all be guilty of not discerning the Lord’s body, and so of prostituting his ordinance, robbing it of its dignity and solemnity by coming there in such a condition.