1 Corinthians 5:8
So then, let us be keeping the feast, not with old leaven, nor with leaven of baseness and wickedness,—but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
9I wrote unto you in my letter—not to be mixing yourselves up with fornicators;—
Cross References
Exodus 13:6Seven days, shalt thou eat unleavened cakes,—and on the seventh day, [shall be] a festival to Yahweh.
Numbers 28:16And, on the first month on the fourteenth day of the month, shall be a passover unto Yahweh;
Deuteronomy 16:16Three times in the year, shall each one of thy males see the face of Yahweh thy God, in the place which he shall choose, at the festival of unleavened cakes and at the festival of weeks and at the festival of booths,—and none shall see the face of Yahweh empty-handed:
Psalms 32:2How happy the son of earth, to whom Yahweh will not reckon iniquity! and in whose spirit is no guile!
Isaiah 25:6Then will Yahweh of hosts prepare for all the peoples in this mountain, A banquet of fat things, A banquet of old wines,—Of fat things full of marrow, Of old wines well refined;
Matthew 16:6And, Jesus, said unto them—Mind! and beware, of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.
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 →