What does 1 Corinthians 5:7 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificedb for us:"
Verse 1 Corinthians 5:7. _PURGE 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...
PURGE 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...
3. CORINTHIAN FAILURES. CHAPTER S 5-6. CHAPTER 5 _ 1. The Tolerated Case of Gross Immorality. (1 Corinthians 5:1)._ 2. The Call to Separation. (1 Corinthians 5:6). The spiritual declension, the car...
It is actually reported that there is unchastity among you, and unchastity so monstrous that it does not even exist among the heathen, unchastity the consequence of which is that a certain man has for...
PURGE OUT. Greek. _ekkathairo._ Only here and 2 Timothy 2:21. CHRIST. App-98. IS. was. FOR. on behalf OF. App-104. But the texts omit "for us"....
_Purge out therefore the old leaven_ Reference is here made to the Jewish custom of searching for leaven, which is mentioned in the Talmud, and which probably existed in the Apostles" time. Because Sc...
THE CASE OF THE INCESTUOUS PERSON....
_THE REASON FOR CHURCH DISCIPLINE 1 CORINTHIANS 5:6-8:_ The first purpose of church discipline is the salvation of the offending brother. God still wants this brother saved. Another reason for discipl...
ΈΚΚΑΘΆΡΑΤΕ _aor. imper. act. от_ ΈΚΚΑΘΑΊΡΩ (G1571) вычищать, тщательно процеживать. Об иудейском правиле удалять из дома всю закваску перед праздником Пасхи _см._ SB, 3:359-60. Предложное сочетание им...
DISCOURSE: 1957 CHRIST OUR PASSOVER 1 Corinthians 5:7. _Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickednes...
PURGE OUT THEREFORE THE OLD LEAVEN— The Apostle continues the figure from unleaved bread, 1 Corinthians 5:6 with a particular view to the Jewish passover, in which it was forbidden. "As therefore it w...
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _The Matter of Moral Discipline_ (1-8) _Text_ 1 Corinthians 5:1-8. It is actually reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even among the Gen...
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: OLD LEAVEN - the remnant of the "old" (Ephesians 4:22) pagan...
8 The sharp contrast between the carnal Corinthians and the faithful apostle loses none of its force if we compare him with the church of today. We need not go outside of Protestantism to find churche...
5:7 out (e-2) See Note b, 2 Timothy 2:21 ....
PARAPHRASE. 'A rumour has reached me that unchastity exists among you, and that one of your number has taken his stepmother as his wife, an act which the very heathen abhor. (2) How can you maintain y...
SERVANTS OF CHRIST 1 CORINTHIANS _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 5 THE PROBLEM OF A SERIOUS *SEXUAL *SIN 5:1-5 V1 News has come to me that there is *sexual *sin among you. A man has been having sex with...
PURGE OUT THEREFORE THE OLD LEAVEN. — It is not the offending man who is here spoken of, but it is the spirit in the Church which tolerated the evil, and which is to be purged out of their midst that...
CHAPTER 8 EXCOMMUNICATION; OR, PURGING OUT THE OLD LEAVEN FROM the subject of the factions in the Corinthian Church, which has so long detained Paul, he now passes to the second division of his Epist...
§ 15. THE CASE OF INCEST. About the party-strifes at Cor [801] P. has been informed by the members of a particular family (1 Corinthians 1:11); the monstrous case of incest, to which he turns abruptly...
REMOVING GERMS OF EVIL 1 Corinthians 5:1 The sin referred to in this chapter has been condoned by the Corinthian church, and this proved that the prevalent standard of morals was low. A man had marr...
The apostle now passed to derelictions. The first was lack of discipline. A case of immorality had brought no sense of shame to the church, and no action had been taken. The woman was called to immedi...
Warning Against the Leaven of Sin They had been proud of their tolerance of sin, as if that was a badge of true righteousness. However, Paul warned them that such pride was not good. He also reminded...
(8) Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new (e) lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our (f) passover is sacrificed for us: (8) By alluding to the ceremony of the passover, he...
_Your glorying is not good, when you suffer such a scandal among you: you have little reason to boast of your masters, or even of the gifts and graces you received. A little leaven corrupteth the whol...
“Purge out the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ, our Paschal lamb, hath been sacrificed. 8. Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither wi...
(6) Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? (7) Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our p...
As usual, the introductory words (1 Corinthians 1:1-3) of the epistle give us no little intimation of that which is to follow. The apostle speaks of himself as such "called [to be] an apostle of Jesus...
_CHRIST AND THE PASSOVER_ ‘Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us.’ 1 Corinthians 5:7 The Passover is perhaps the most interesting ceremony in the world on the sole ground of its continuous celeb...
7._Purge out therefore _Having borrowed a similitude from _leaven_, he pursues it farther, though he makes a transition from a particular point to a general doctrine. For he is no longer speaking of t...
He begins to treat the details of conduct and of discipline; and, first of all, the carnal defilement carried on in their midst to the last degree of hardness of conscience. Those who sought their own...
PURGE OUT THEREFORE THE OLD LEAVEN,....] Meaning either the incestuous person, whose crime might well be compared to sour "leaven", and be called old because of his long continuance in it; whom the ap...
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: Ver. 7. _As ye are unleavened_] viz. In part sanctified. Every...
_Your glorying_ Of the flourishing state of your church, or of your gifts, at such a time as this; _is not good_ Is very unseasonable, your church being defiled by tolerating such vices, and thereby e...
PURGE OUT-THE OLD LEAVEN; the apostle alludes to the Jewish custom of carefully putting away from their houses all leaven upon the approach of the feast of the passover. Leaven is in the Scriptures a...
The general need of purification in the Christian congregations:...
The emphasis on human wisdom in Corinth was sadly accompanied by a case of revolting moral corruption. Philosophy is far removed from spiritual power, very commonly. Paul speaks here of a case well kn...
IS SACRIFICED: Or, is slain...
PURGE OUT THE OLD LEAVEN, THAT YE MAY BE. NEW LUMP, EVEN AS YE ARE UNLEAVENED. FOR OUR PASSOVER ALSO HATH BEEN SACRIFICED, EVEN CHRIST: 'Purge out the old leaven' -'On the eve of the first day of th...
1-8 The apostle notices a flagrant abuse, winked at by the Corinthians. Party spirit, and a false notion of Christian liberty, seem to have saved the offender from censure. Grievous indeed is it that...
OLBGrk; PURGE OUT THEREFORE THE OLD LEAVEN: if the article thn in this place be emphatical (as some think) it ought to have been translated this old leaven, that is, the incestuous person, whose commu...
Purge out the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, even as ye are unleavened. For our passover also hath been sacrificed, even Christ :...
Epistle of Ignatius to the Magnesians when Paul and Peter were laying the foundations of the Church. Lay aside, therefore, the evil, the old, the corrupt leaven,[70] Clement of Alexandria Stromata B...
1 Corinthians 5:7 Therefore G3767 out G1571 (G5657) old G3820 leaven G2219 that G2443 be G5600 (G5753) new G3501 lump G5445 since G2531 are G2075 (G5748) unleavened G106 For G1063 indeed G2532 Christ...
IMPORTANT SCANDALS THAT HAVE TO BE DEALT WITH (5:1-6:20). Having dealt with the central spiritual concern which has been to do with their divisiveness over secondary matters, over ‘the wisdom of word...
1 Corinthians 5:7. PURGE OUT [1] THE OLD LEAVEN. Referring to the practice enjoined in Exodus 12:15, and almost superstitiously observed at the Passover time, of removing every particle of leaven from...
PURGE OUT (εκκαθαρατε). First aorist (effective) active imperative of εκκαθαιρω, old verb to cleanse out (εκ), to clean completely. Aorist tense of urgency, do it now and do it effectively before t...
1 Corinthians 5:7 Our Passover. I. Our Passover Sacrifice. It is very noteworthy, regard being had to the great prominence which the idea of Christ as our Passover has received in later theology, tha...
CONTENTS: Immorality rebuked and discipline enjoined. CHARACTERS: Christ, Paul, Satan. CONCLUSION: The heinous sins of professed Christians are quickly noted and noised abroad to the injury of Chris...
1 Corinthians 5:1. _There is fornication among you._ Πορνεια designates every species of illicit intercourse between the sexes. Our Saxon word _forliggian_ properly expresses fornication, but here adu...
YOU MUST TAKE OUT. The church as a group must act to remove this source of "bad example." A NEW BATCH OF DOUGH. Paul uses the "unleavened bread" of Passover as a symbol _of purity._ During Passover we...
_It is reported that there is fornication among you._ GROSS SCANDALS 1. May arise within the Church. 2. Occasion grievous reproach. 3. Should be instantly investigated and removed. (_J. Lyth, D. D...
1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 CORINTHIANS 5:1 A Report of Sexual Immorality and Lawsuits. Paul has heard of several problems in Corinth. There is a bizarre case of sexual misconduct (1 Corinthians 5:1). Bel...
CHAPTER V. SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER i. The Apostle proceeds from the schism of the Corinthians to deal with the scandal caused by incest among them: he blames them for allowing one living openly in i...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ THE CASE OF SHAMEFUL SIN (Also in 2 Corinthians 2:5; 2 Corinthians 7:8.) 1 Corinthians 5:1. COMMONLY.—“_Actually_” (; widely accepted). AMONG YOU.—Join with “_there is_,” not with “...
EXPOSITION 1 CORINTHIANS 5:1 _Excommunication of an incestuous offender._ 1 CORINTHIANS 5:1 IT IS REPORTED. The abruptness with which the subject is introduced shows THE intensity of St. Paul's fe...
Let's turn in our Bibles now to I Corinthians, chapter 5. The Corinthian letter of Paul was mainly corrective. The Corinthian church had innumerable problems. Those from the house of Chloe had reporte...
1 Corinthians 10:17; 1 Corinthians 15:3; 1 Corinthians 15:4; 1 Corinthians 5:13; 1 Peter 1:19; 1 Peter 1:20; Acts 8:32; Colossians 3:5; Ephesians 4:22;...
Leaven. Not the sinful man, but evil of every kind, in accordance with the more general statement of the leavening, power of evil in ver. 6. The apostle's metaphor is shaped by the commands concerning...
ADMONITIONS TO A WORLDLY CHURCH 1 Corinthians 5:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. How quickly bad reports fly. The Apostle wrote, "It is reported commonly." Just so. Evil deeds usually travel on the wings of...
Purge out therefore the old leaven — Both of sinners and of sin. That ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened — That is, that being unleavened ye may be a new lump, holy unto the Lord. For our pass...