1 Corinthians 5:7
Purge the old leaven, so that you may become the new bread, for you are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover, has now been immolated.
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6It is not good for you to glory. Do you not know that a little leaven corrupts the entire mass?
Cross References
Exodus 12:5And it shall be a lamb without blemish, a one year old male. According to this rite, you shall also take a young goat.
Exodus 13:6For seven days, you shall feed on unleavened bread. And on the seventh day, it will be the solemnity of the Lord.
Mark 14:12And on the first day of Unleavened Bread, when they immolate the Passover, the disciples said to him, “Where do you want us to go and prepare for you to eat the Passover?”
John 1:36And catching sight of Jesus walking, he said, “Behold, the Lamb of God.”
Acts 8:32Now the place in Scripture that he was reading was this: “Like a sheep he was led to the slaughter. And like a lamb silent before his shearer, so he opened not his mouth.
1 Corinthians 10:17Through the one bread, we, though many, are one body: all of us who are 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 →