1 Corinthians 5:7
Purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new paste, as you are unleavened. For Christ our pasch is sacrificed.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
6Your glorying is not good. Know you not that a little leaven corrupteth the whole lump ?
Cross References
Exodus 12:5And it shall be a lamb without blemish, a male, of one year: according to which rite also you shall take a kid.
Exodus 13:6Seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread: and on the seventh day shall be the solemnity of the Lord.
Mark 14:12Now on the first day of the unleavened bread, when they sacrificed the pasch, the disciples say to him: Whither wilt thou that we go, and prepare for thee to eat the pasch?
John 1:36And beholding Jesus walking, he saith: Behold the Lamb of God.
Acts 8:32And the place of the scripture which he was reading was this: He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb without voice before his shearer, so openeth he not his mouth.
1 Corinthians 10:17For we, being many, are one bread, one body, all that partake of 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 →