1 Corinthians 5:7
Purge out the old yeast, that you may be a new lump, even as you are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, has been sacrificed in our place.
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In Context
6Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast leavens the whole lump?
Cross References
Exodus 12:5Your lamb shall be without defect, a male a year old. You shall take it from the sheep or from the goats.
Exodus 13:6Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh day shall be a feast to the LORD.
Mark 14:12On the first day of unleavened bread, when they sacrificed the Passover, his disciples asked him, “Where do you want us to go and prepare that you may eat the Passover?”
John 1:36and he looked at Jesus as he walked, and said, “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. As a lamb before his shearer is silent, so he doesn’t open his mouth.
1 Corinthians 10:17Because there is one loaf of bread, we, who are many, are one body; for we all partake of the one loaf of 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 →