New Living Translation
1 Corinthians 5:7
7Get rid of the old “yeast” by removing this wicked person from among you. Then you will be like a fresh batch of dough made without yeast, which is what you really are. Christ, our Passover Lamb, has been sacrificed for us.
1 Corinthians 5:7 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)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:
- New International Version (NIV)Get rid of the old yeast, so that you may be a new unleavened batch—as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Therefore purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, since you truly are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us.
Context of 1 Corinthians 5:7
5Then you must throw this man out and hand him over to Satan so that his sinful nature will be destroyed and he himself will be saved on the day the Lord returns. 6Your boasting about this is terrible. Don’t you realize that this sin is like a little yeast that spreads through the whole batch of dough? Get rid of the old “yeast” by removing this wicked person from among you. Then you will be like a fresh batch of dough made without yeast, which is what you really are. Christ, our Passover Lamb, has been sacrificed for us. 8So let us celebrate the festival, not with the old bread of wickedness and evil, but with the new bread of sincerity and truth. 9When I wrote to you before, I told you not to associate with people who indulge in sexual sin.
Read all of 1 Corinthians 51 Corinthians 5:7 word by word
ἐκκαθάρατε τὴν παλαιὰν ζύμην, ἵνα ἦτε νέον φύραμα καθώς ἐστε ἄζυμοι· καὶ γὰρ τὸ πάσχα ἡμῶν ἐτύθη Χριστός.Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
- ·ὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588
- Purge outἐκκαθαίρωekkathairō · to cleanseG1571
- thereforeοὖνoun · therefore/thenG3767
- the oldπαλαιόςpalaios · oldG3820
- leavenζύμηzumē · leavenG2219
- thatἵναhina · in order that/toG2443
- ye may beεἰμίeimi · to beG1510
- a newνέοςneos neōteros · newG3501
- lumpφύραμαphurama · lumpG5445
- asκαθώςkathōs · as/just asG2531
- unleavenedἄζυμοςazumos · unleavenedG106
- Forγάρgar · forG1063
- evenκαίkai · andG2532
- ChristΧριστόςChristos · ChristG5547
- ourἐγώegō · I/weG1473
- passoverπάσχαpascha · Passover lambG3957
- is sacrificedθύωthuō · to sacrificeG2380
- forὑπέρhuper · above/forG5228
Cross-references for 1 Corinthians 5:7
- 1 Corinthians 5:13God will judge those on the outside; but as the Scriptures say, “You must remove the evil person from among you.”
- Exodus 12:15For seven days the bread you eat must be made without yeast. On the first day of the festival, remove every trace of yeast from your homes. Anyone who eats bread made with yeast during the seven days of the festival will be cut off from the community of Israel.
- Exodus 13:6For seven days the bread you eat must be made without yeast. Then on the seventh day, celebrate a feast to the Lord.
- Ephesians 4:22throw off your old sinful nature and your former way of life, which is corrupted by lust and deception.
- Colossians 3:5So put to death the sinful, earthly things lurking within you. Have nothing to do with sexual immorality, impurity, lust, and evil desires. Don’t be greedy, for a greedy person is an idolater, worshiping the things of this world.
- 1 Corinthians 10:17And though we are many, we all eat from one loaf of bread, showing that we are one body.
- 1 Corinthians 15:3I passed on to you what was most important and what had also been passed on to me. Christ died for our sins, just as the Scriptures said.
- Exodus 12:5The animal you select must be a one-year-old male, either a sheep or a goat, with no defects.
- Isaiah 53:7He was oppressed and treated harshly, yet he never said a word. He was led like a lamb to the slaughter. And as a sheep is silent before the shearers, he did not open his mouth.
- John 1:29The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!
- John 19:14It was now about noon on the day of preparation for the Passover. And Pilate said to the people, “Look, here is your king!”
- Acts 8:32The passage of Scripture he had been reading was this: “He was led like a sheep to the slaughter. And as a lamb is silent before the shearers, he did not open his mouth.
- 1 Peter 1:19It was the precious blood of Christ, the sinless, spotless Lamb of God.
- Revelation 5:6Then I saw a Lamb that looked as if it had been slaughtered, but it was now standing between the throne and the four living beings and among the twenty-four elders. He had seven horns and seven eyes, which represent the sevenfold Spirit of God that is sent out into every part of the earth.
Commentaries on 1 Corinthians 5:7
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 7Purge out therefore the old leaven - As it is the custom of the Jews previously to the passover to search their houses in the most diligent manner for the old leaven, and throw it out, sweeping every part clean; so act with this incestuous person. I have already shown with what care the Jews purged their houses from all leaven previously to the passover; see the note on Exodus 12:8-19; (note), and on the term passover, and Christ as represented by this…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 7Purge out therefore - Put away; free yourselves from. The old leaven - The apostle here takes occasion, from the mention of leaven, to exhort the Corinthians to put away vice and sin. The figure is derived from the custom of the Jews in putting away leaven at the celebration of the passover. By the OLD leaven he means vice and sin; and also here the person who had committed the sin in their church. As the Jews, at the celebration of the passover, gave…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. 77. old leaven--The remnant of the "old" (Ep 4:22-24) heathenish and natural corruption. The image is taken from the extreme care of the Jews in searching every corner of their houses, and "purging out" every particle of leaven from the time of killing the lamb before the Passover (De 16:3, 4). So Christians are continually to search and purify their hearts (Psa 139:23, 24). as ye are unleavened--normally, and as far as your Christian calling is concerned…Read the comment
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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
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