1 Corinthians 5:7
Take away, then, the old leaven, so that you may be a new mass, even as you are without leaven. For Christ has been put to death as our Passover.
Bible in Basic English
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In Context
6This pride of yours is not good. Do you not see that a little leaven makes a change in all the mass?
Cross References
Exodus 12:5Let your lamb be without a mark, a male in its first year: you may take it from among the sheep or the goats:
Exodus 13:6For seven days let your food be unleavened cakes; and on the seventh day there is to be a feast to the Lord.
Mark 14:12And on the first day of unleavened bread, when the Passover lamb is put to death, his disciples said to him, Where are we to go and make ready for you to take the Passover meal?
John 1:36And looking at Jesus while he was walking he said, See, there is the Lamb of God!
Acts 8:32Now the place in the book where he was reading was this: He was taken, like a sheep, to be put to death; and as a lamb is quiet when its wool is being cut, so he made no sound:
1 Corinthians 10:17Because we, being a number of persons, are one bread, we are one body: for we all take part in 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 →