1 Corinthians 5:8

1 Corinthians 5:8 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)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.
• New International Version (NIV)Therefore let us keep the Festival, not with the old bread leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Let us therefore celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

Context of 1 Corinthians 5:8

6Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little leaven leavens the whole batch of dough? 7Clean out the old leaven so that you may be a new unleavened batch, as indeed you are. For Christ our Passover lamb has been sacrificed. Therefore, let us observe the feast, not with old leaven or with the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. 9I wrote to you in a letter not to associate with sexually immoral people. 10I did not mean the immoral people of this world or the greedy and swindlers or idolaters; otherwise you would have to leave the world.

1 Corinthians 5:8 word by word

ὥστε ἑορτάζωμεν μὴ ἐν ζύμῃ παλαιᾷ μηδὲ ἐν ζύμῃ κακίας καὶ πονηρίας ἀλλ᾽ ἐν ἀζύμοις εἰλικρινείας καὶ ἀληθείας.¶Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Thereforeὥστεhōste · soG5620
• let us keep the feastἑορτάζωheortazō · to keep a festivalG1858
• notμήmē · notG3361
• withἐνen · in/on/amongG1722
• oldπαλαιόςpalaios · oldG3820
• leavenζύμηzumē · leavenG2219
• neitherμηδέmēde · norG3366
• of maliceκακίαkakia · evilG2549
• andκαίkai · andG2532
• wickednessπονηρίαponēria · evilG4189
• butἀλλάalla · butG235
• the unleavenedἄζυμοςazumos · unleavenedG106
• of sincerityεἰλικρίνειαeilikrineia · sincerityG1505
• truthἀλήθειαalētheia · truthG225

Cross-references for 1 Corinthians 5:8

• Exodus 12:15You must eat unleavened bread for seven days. On the first day you must remove yeast from your houses. Whoever eats what is leavened from the first day through the seventh day must be cut off from Israel.
• Exodus 13:6For seven days you must eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there is to be a festival to the Lord.
• Leviticus 23:6The Festival of Unleavened Bread to the Lord is on the fifteenth day of the same month. For seven days you must eat unleavened bread.
• Numbers 28:16“The Passover to the Lord comes in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month.
• Deuteronomy 16:16“All your males are to appear three times a year before the Lord your God in the place he chooses: at the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the Festival of Weeks, and the Festival of Shelters. No one is to appear before the Lord empty-handed.
• Isaiah 25:6On this mountain, the Lord of Armies will prepare for all the peoples a feast of choice meat, a feast with aged wine, prime cuts of choice meat, fine vintage wine.
• Psalms 42:4I remember this as I pour out my heart: how I walked with many, leading the festive procession to the house of God, with joyful and thankful shouts.
• Isaiah 30:29Your singing will be like that on the night of a holy festival, and your heart will rejoice like one who walks to the music of a flute, going up to the mountain of the Lord, to the Rock of Israel.
• 1 Corinthians 5:1It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and the kind of sexual immorality that is not even tolerated among the Gentiles — a man is sleeping with his father’s wife.
• 1 Corinthians 6:9Don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s kingdom? Do not be deceived: No sexually immoral people, idolaters, adulterers, or males who have sex with males,
• Deuteronomy 16:3Do not eat leavened bread with it. For seven days you are to eat unleavened bread with it, the bread of hardship — because you left the land of Egypt in a hurry — so that you may remember for the rest of your life the day you left the land of Egypt.
• 2 Corinthians 12:21I fear that when I come my God will again humiliate me in your presence, and I will grieve for many who sinned before and have not repented of the moral impurity, sexual immorality, and sensuality they practiced.
• Ephesians 4:17Therefore, I say this and testify in the Lord: You should no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thoughts.
• 1 Peter 4:2in order to live the remaining time in the flesh no longer for human desires, but for God’s will.
• 1 Corinthians 3:3because you are still worldly. For since there is envy and strife among you, are you not worldly and behaving like mere humans?
• Matthew 16:6Then Jesus told them, “Watch out and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”

Commentaries on 1 Corinthians 5:8

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 8Therefore let us keep the feast - It is very likely that the time of the passover was now approaching, when the Church of Christ would be called to extraordinary acts of devotion, in commemorating the passion, death, and resurrection of Christ; and of this circumstance the apostle takes advantage in his exhortation to the Corinthians. See the Introduction, Section 12. Not with old leaven - Under the Christian dispensation we must be saved equally from…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 8Let us keep the feast - Margin, “Holy day” ̔́ heortazōmenThis is language drawn from the paschal feast, and is used by Paul frequently to carry out and apply his illustration. It does not mean literally the paschal supper here - for that had ceased to be observed by Christians - nor the Lord‘s Supper particularly; but the sense is “As the Jews when they celebrated the paschal supper, on the slaying and sacrifice of the paschal lamb, put away all leaven…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 7-8Paul compares the Jewish Passover celebration to Christ's sacrifice. During Passover, people sacrificed a lamb and ate unleavened bread (see Exodus 12:1–27; 13:3–7). Christ's sacrifice, which happened at Passover (Matthew 26:2; compare John 1:29; 1 Peter 1:19), removes sin for believers.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 88. not ... old leaven--of our unconverted state as Jews or heathen. malice--the opposite of "sincerity," which allows no leaven of evil to be mixed up with good (Mt 16:6). wickedness--the opposite of "truth," which allows not evil to be mistaken for good. The Greek for "malice" means the evil habit of mind; "wickedness," the outcoming of the same in word and deed. The Greek for "sincerity" expresses literally, a thing which, when examined by the sun's…Read the comment

Topics related to 1 Corinthians 5:8

• Adultery
• Backsliders
• Influence
• Leaven (Yeast)
• Malice
• Passover
• Sincerity
• Truth
• Zeal, Religious

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Commentaries on 1 Corinthians 5

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Illustrated New Testament
• Burkitt’s Expository Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Family Bible Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• The People’s New Testament
• Robertson’s Word Pictures
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings