1 Corinthians 5:7
Purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new mass, as you are without leaven; for Christ, our passover, has been sacrificed for us.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
6Your boasting is not good; know you not that a little leaven leavens the whole mass?
Cross References
Mark 14:12And on the first day of unleavened bread, when they killed the passover, his disciples said to him: Where dost thou wish that we go and prepare that thou mayest eat the passover?
John 1:36And looking on Jesus as he walked, he said: Behold the Lamb of God.
Acts 8:32The passage of the scripture which he was reading, was this: As a sheep for the slaughter was he led; and as a lamb before his shearer is dumb, so opened he not his mouth
1 Corinthians 10:17Because the loaf is one, we, the many, are one body, for we are all partakers of the one loaf.
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 →