1 Corinthians 5:7
Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new mass, as ye are unleavened. For our passover hath been sacrificed for us, even Christ.
Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
6Your glorying is not good: know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole mass?
Cross References
Mark 14:12And on the first day of unleavened bread, when they killed the passover, his disciples said unto him, Where wilt thou that we go and prepare for thee to eat the passover?
John 1:36and looking upon Jesus as he walked by, he saith, Behold the Lamb of God!
Acts 8:32The portion of scripture which he had been reading was this: “He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and as a lamb before him who sheareth it is dumb, so he opened not his mouth:
1 Corinthians 10:17For we, though many, are one loaf, one body; for we all partake of 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 →