A Parting Hymn We Sing is a compact Communion hymn that turns the Lord's Supper into a point of departure rather than an isolated devotional moment.
Hymns Based on 1 Corinthians 10:16
Christian hymns and worship songs connected to 1 Corinthians 10:16
"The cup of blessing which we bless, isn’t it a sharing of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, isn’t it a sharing of the body of Christ? Because there is one loaf of bread, we, who are many, are one body; for we all partake of the one loaf of bread."
— 1 Corinthians 10:16
Theological Significance
This verse has inspired Christian hymns that explore themes of Communion, Eucharist, Grace, Worship, Thanksgiving. Many worship songs connected to 1 Corinthians 10:16 proclaim these timeless biblical truths and invite believers to reflect on and celebrate the message of this scripture.
Sermon Themes from This Passage
- Communion
- Eucharist
- Grace
- Worship
- Thanksgiving
Suggested Hymns for Worship
Example Worship Flow
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Call to Worship Psalm 100
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Opening Hymn Become to Us the Living Bread
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Scripture Reading 1 Corinthians 10:16
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Sermon Communion
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Response Hymn A Parting Hymn We Sing
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Reflection Hymn Be Known to Us in Breaking Bread
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Closing Hymn Come, Let Us Eat
Hymns Inspired by This Passage
Be Known to Us in Breaking Bread is a compact communion prayer shaped by the risen Christ’s encounter with the disciples at Emmaus.
Be Present at Our Table, Lord is John Cennick's four-line grace before a meal, conventionally dated 1741 from its earliest verified printing.
Become to Us the Living Bread is Miriam Drury’s modern Communion hymn, a concise congregational prayer centered on Christ as the source of spiritual nourishment and on the unity of believers around the Lord’s Table.
Blest Feast of Love Divine is a shortened and altered form of Sir Edward Denny's Communion hymn originally beginning Sweet feast of love divine.
Christian People, Raise Your Song is a 1975 hymn by Colin Peter Thompson that brings together Holy Communion, resurrection joy, and the shared life of the church.
Come, Let Us Eat is a Liberian Communion song whose English form joins a Loma text and melody by Billema Kwillia with a 1969 English versification by Margaret D.
This twentieth-century communion hymn centers on the church as a community gathered by the Holy Spirit and conscious of Christ's presence.
Father, We Thank You is a Eucharistic hymn of thanksgiving and church unity based on prayers in chapters 9 and 10 of the Didache, an early Christian manual.
For the Bread Which You Have Broken is a compact communion hymn in which thanksgiving at the Lord's Table becomes a prayer for holy living.
Here, O My Lord, I See Thee is Horatius Bonar's deeply personal Communion hymn, inviting worshipers to approach the Lord's Table in faith and to receive the meal as fellowship with Christ.
Here, O My Lord, I See Thee Face to Face is Horatius Bonar’s great hymn of Communion, written to help worshipers approach the Lord’s Table with faith, humility, assurance, and hope.
I Come with Joy is Brian Wren's communion hymn about the Lord's Supper as encounter with Christ and incorporation into a reconciled community.
Let Us Break Bread Together is an anonymous African American spiritual whose strongest documentary roots are on St.
O Food to Pilgrims Given is an English translation and later alteration of the anonymous Latin Eucharistic hymn O esca viatorum.
O the Depth of Love Divine is one of Charles Wesley’s most concentrated hymns on Holy Communion.
O Thou Who This Mysterious Bread is Charles Wesley's Communion hymn on the risen Christ at Emmaus and on the Lord's Supper as a means of grace.
"One Bread, One Body" is a Communion song in which Eucharistic participation and the church's unity interpret one another.
“Sheaves of Summer” is the English title commonly used for George Lockwood's translation of Cesáreo Gabaráin's Spanish Eucharistic hymn “Una Espiga.
Take Our Bread is a Eucharistic and offertory song from the first generation of post-Vatican II Catholic folk liturgy.
The King of Love My Shepherd Is is Henry Williams Baker's 1868 Christian paraphrase of Psalm 23.
Word of God, Come Down on Earth is a modern Christological hymn by Scottish Jesuit James Quinn.
You Satisfy the Hungry Heart, originally titled Gift of Finest Wheat, is a Communion hymn in which receiving from Christ and becoming Christlike belong together.