1 Corinthians 5:7
Purge out the old leaven, so that ye may be a new lump, since ye are unleavened. For also Christ our Passover was sacrificed for us.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
6Your boasting is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?
Cross References
Exodus 12:5Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old. Ye shall take it from the sheep, or from the goats.
Exodus 13:6Seven days thou shall eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh day shall be a feast to LORD.
Mark 14:12And on the first day of unleavened bread, when they killed the Passover, his disciples say to him, Where do thou want, after going, we should prepare that thou may eat the Passover?
John 1:36And having looked upon Jesus walking, he says, Behold, the Lamb of God!
Acts 8:32Now the passage of the Scripture that he was reading was this: He was led as a sheep to slaughter, and as a lamb, mute before shearing him, thus he opened not his mouth.
1 Corinthians 10:17Because we, the many, are one bread, one body, for we are all partakers of the one bread.
Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 5:2-7
A Case of Gross Criminality; Christian Purity. ( a. d. 57.) 1 It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife. 2 And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you. 3 For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed, 4 In the name of… Read the whole commentary →