1 Corinthians 5:7
Purge out the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, even as ye are unleavened. For our passover also hath been sacrificed, [even] Christ:
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In Context
6Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
Cross References
Exodus 12:5Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old: ye shall take it from the sheep, or from the goats:
Exodus 13:6Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh day shall be a feast to Jehovah.
Mark 14:12And on the first day of unleavened bread, when they sacrificed the passover, his disciples say unto him, Where wilt thou that we go and make ready that thou mayest eat the passover?
John 1:36and he looked upon Jesus as he walked, and saith, Behold, the Lamb of God!
Acts 8:32Now the passage of the Scripture which he was reading was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; And as a lamb before his shearer is dumb, So he openeth not his mouth:
1 Corinthians 10:17seeing that we, who are many, are one bread, one body: for we are all partake 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 →