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1 Corinthians 5:8 KJV
1 Corinthians · chapter 5 · verse 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.1 Corinthians 5:8 · King James Version
1 Corinthians 5:8 in context
6Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
7Purge 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:
8Therefore 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.
9I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:
10Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world.
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Key words (Strong's)
- wickednessponēriadepravity, iniquity, wickedness, malice, evil purposes and desiresG4189 →
- unleavenedazymosunfermented, free from leaven or yeast, of the unleavened loaves used in the paschal…G106 →
- leavenzymēleaven, metaph. of inveterate mental and moral corruption, viewed in its tendency to…G2219 →
- malicekakiamalignity, malice, ill-will, desire to injure, wickedness, depravity, wickedness that is…G2549 →
- truthalētheiaobjectively, what is true in any matter under consideration, truly, in truth, according…G225 →
- oldpalaiosold, ancient, no longer new, worn by use, the worse for wear, oldG3820 →
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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 out the old leaven, that they might be a new lump, refers to the putting away from themselves that wicked person, Co1 5:13.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 7-8