1 Corinthians 5:8
Therefore let vs keepe the feast, not with olde leauen, neither in the leauen of maliciousnes and wickednesse: but with the vnleauened bread of synceritie and trueth.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
In Context
9I wrote vnto you in an Epistle, that ye should not companie together with fornicatours,
Cross References
Exodus 13:6Seuen dayes shalt thou eate vnleauened bread, and the seuenth day shall be the feast of the Lord.
Numbers 28:16Also the fourtenth day of the first moneth is the Passeouer of the Lord.
Deuteronomy 16:16Three times in the yeere shall all the males appeare before the Lord thy God in the place which he shall chuse: in the feast of the vnleauened bread, and in the feast of the weekes, and in the feast of the Tabernacles: and they shall not appeare before the Lord emptie.
Psalms 32:2Blessed is the man, vnto whom the Lord imputeth not iniquitie, and in whose spirite there is no guile.
Isaiah 25:6And in this mountaine shall the Lord of hostes make vnto all people a feast of fat thinges, euen a feast of fined wines, and of fat thinges full of marow, of wines fined and purified.
Matthew 16:6Then Iesus said vnto them, Take heede and beware of the leauen of the Pharises and Sadduces.
Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 5:8-9
Exhortation to Christian Purity. ( a. d. 57.) 7 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: 8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. Here the apostle exhorts them to purity, by purging out the old leaven. In this observe, I. The advice itself, addressed either, 1. To the church in general; and so purging… Read the whole commentary →