1 Corinthians 5:7
Purge out from you the old leaven, that ye may be a new mass, as ye are unleavened. For our passover is the Messiah, who was slain for us.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
In Context
6Your glorying is not praiseworthy. Know ye not, that a little leaven leaveneth the whole mass?
Cross References
Mark 14:12And on the first day of unleavened cakes, on which the Jews slay the passover, his disciples said to him: Where wilt thou that we go, and prepare for thee to eat the passover?
John 1:36And he looked upon Jesus as he walked, and said: Behold, the Lamb of God!
Acts 8:32And the section of scripture in which he was reading, was this: As a lamb to the slaughter he was led away, and as a sheep before the shearer is silent, so also he in his humility opened not his mouth.
1 Corinthians 10:17As therefore that bread is one, so we are all one body; for we all take to ourselves from that 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 →