1 Corinthians 5:7
Cleanse out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, according as ye are unleavened. For our passover, Christ, was sacrificed for us;
The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)
In The King James Version
In Context
6Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?
Cross References
Mark 14:12And on the first day of the feast of unleavened bread, when they killed 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 upon Jesus as he walked, he says: Behold the Lamb of God!
Acts 8:32And the contents of the Scripture which he was reading was this: He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; And as a lamb dumb before his shearer, So he opens not his mouth.
1 Corinthians 10:17Because we, the many, are one loaf, one body; for we all share in 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 →