Bible Verses About The Love Feast And Christian Fellowship

And they continued stedfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.

Directly names fellowship and breaking bread.

And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight.

Simple gathering to break bread.

But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind:

Direct instruction to invite the poor to a feast.

Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

Direct passage: keep the feast with sincerity and truth

That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.

Direct fellowship passage tied to apostolic witness.

And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart,

Daily breaking bread in homes.

When he therefore was come up again, and had broken bread, and eaten, and talked a long while, even till break of day, so he departed.

Breaking bread and eating with the church.

And it came to pass, as he sat at meat with them, he took bread, and blessed it, and brake, and gave to them.

Direct bread-breaking scene

And as they did eat, Jesus took bread, and blessed, and brake it, and gave to them, and said, Take, eat: this is my body.

Institution text for the bread

And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body.

Parallel institution text

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.

Remembrance command with bread

And he took bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, saying, This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me.

Parallel remembrance command

And when he had thus spoken, he took bread, and gave thanks to God in presence of them all: and when he had broken it, he began to eat.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality.

Hospitality language that supports the same theme.

Wherefore, my brethren, when ye come together to eat, tarry one for another.

Tells believers to wait for one another at the meal.

For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunken.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?

Communion language for bread and cup.

These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

If any of them that believe not bid you to a feast, and ye be disposed to go; whatsoever is set before you, eat, asking no question for conscience sake.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come.

Shows the meal proclaims the Lord's death.

Come, eat of my bread, and drink of the wine which I have mingled.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

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:

Institution wording for the meal.

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.

Warning about unworthy participation