1 Corinthians 5:7
cleanse out, therefore, the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, according as ye are unleavened, for also our passover for us was sacrificed — Christ,
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
6Not good [is] your glorying; have ye not known that a little leaven the whole lump doth leaven?
Cross References
Exodus 12:5a lamb, a perfect one, a male, a son of a year, let be to you; from the sheep or from the goats ye do take [it].
Exodus 13:6'Seven days thou dost eat unleavened things, and in the seventh day [is] a feast to Jehovah;
Mark 14:12And the first day of the unleavened food, when they were killing the passover, his disciples say to him, 'Where wilt thou, [that,] having gone, we may prepare, that thou mayest eat the passover?'
John 1:36and having looked on Jesus walking, he saith, 'Lo, the Lamb of God;'
Acts 8:32And the contents of the Writing that he was reading was this: 'As a sheep unto slaughter he was led, and as a lamb before his shearer dumb, so he doth not open his mouth;
1 Corinthians 10:17because one bread, one body, are we the many — for we all of the one bread do partake.
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 →