1 Corinthians 5:7
Purge out the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, according as ye are unleavened. For also our passover, Christ, has been sacrificed;
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
6Your boasting [is] not good. Do ye not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?
Cross References
Exodus 12:5Your lamb shall be without blemish, a yearling male; ye shall take [it] from the sheep, or from the goats.
Exodus 13:6Seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread; and in the seventh day is a feast to Jehovah.
Mark 14:12And the first day of unleavened bread, when they slew the passover, his disciples say to him, Where wilt thou that we go and prepare, that thou mayest eat the passover?
John 1:36And, looking at Jesus as he walked, he says, Behold the Lamb of God.
Acts 8:32And the passage of the scripture which he read was this: He was led as a sheep to slaughter, and as a lamb is dumb in presence of him that shears him, thus he opens not his mouth.
1 Corinthians 10:17Because we, [being] many, are one loaf, one body; for we all partake of that 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 →