1 Corinthians 5:8

Contextual Overview

⁷ Take out all the old yeast, so that you will be a new batch of dough. You really are bread without yeast—Passover bread. Yes, Christ our Passover Lamb has already been killed. ⁷ Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our paschal lamb, has been sacrificed. ⁷ Pourge therfore the olde leven that ye maye be newe dowe as ye are swete breed. For Christ oure esterlambe is offered vp for vs. ⁷ Purge out the old yeast, that you may be a new lump, even as you are unleavened. For indeed Messiah, our Pesach, has been sacrificed in our place. ⁷ Get rid of the old yeast so that you may be a new batch of dough, since you are to be free from yeast. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.Isaiah 53:7; John 1:29; 19:14; 1 Corinthians 15:3; 1 Peter 1:19; Revelation 5:6,12;">[xr] ⁷ Clean out the old leaven so that you may be a new lump, just as you are in fact unleavened. For Christ our Passover also has been sacrificed. ⁷ Take out all the old yeast so that you will be a new batch of dough without yeast, which you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. ⁷ Purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, even as you are unleavened. For our passover also has been sacrificed, [even] Christ: ⁷ Cleanse 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: ⁷ 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.

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let: Exodus 12:15, Exodus 13:6, Leviticus 23:6, Numbers 28:16, Numbers 28:17, Deuteronomy 16:16, Isaiah 25:6

feast: or, holy day, Psalms 42:4, Isaiah 30:29

not: 1 Corinthians 5:1, 1 Corinthians 5:6, 1 Corinthians 6:9-11, Deuteronomy 16:3, 2 Corinthians 12:21, Ephesians 4:17-22, 1 Peter 4:2

neither: 1 Corinthians 3:3, Matthew 16:6, Matthew 16:12, Matthew 26:4, Matthew 26:5, Mark 8:15, Luke 12:1, John 18:28-30, 2 Corinthians 12:20, 1 Peter 2:1, 1 Peter 2:2

but: Joshua 24:14, Psalms 32:2, John 1:47, 2 Corinthians 1:12, 2 Corinthians 8:8, Ephesians 6:24, 1 John 3:18-21

Reciprocal: Genesis 19:3 - unleavened Genesis 22:13 - in the Exodus 5:1 - a feast Exodus 10:9 - a feast Exodus 12:14 - by an ordinance Exodus 12:19 - Seven Exodus 13:3 - there Exodus 23:15 - the feast Exodus 32:5 - a feast Exodus 34:25 - leaven Leviticus 2:4 - the oven Leviticus 6:16 - unleavened Leviticus 23:5 - General Numbers 9:2 - his appointed Numbers 9:7 - we may not offer 1 Samuel 9:12 - sacrifice 2 Chronicles 30:1 - to keep 2 Chronicles 30:21 - the feast 2 Chronicles 35:17 - the feast Ezra 6:22 - the feast Psalms 35:16 - hypocritical Proverbs 9:2 - killed Ezekiel 45:17 - he shall prepare Ezekiel 45:21 - ye shall Matthew 22:4 - Behold Mark 14:12 - killed Luke 22:1 - General Luke 22:16 - until Acts 12:3 - Then Acts 20:6 - the days Romans 12:1 - a living 1 Corinthians 11:24 - eat Ephesians 4:31 - with Hebrews 13:10 - an altar 1 Peter 1:19 - as

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Therefore let us keep the feast,.... Not the feast of the passover, which was now ceased, though this is said in allusion to it; when the master of the house used to say l,

"everyone that is hungry, let him come and eat; he that hath need, let him come ויפסח, "and paschatize", or keep the feast of the passover:''

but rather the feast of the Lord's supper is here meant, that feast of fat things Isaiah prophesied of; in which are the richest entertainments, even the flesh and blood of Christ; though it seems best to understand it of the whole course of a Christian's life, spent in the exercise of spiritual joy and faith in Christ; he that is of a merry heart, as the believer of all men in the world has reason to be of, "hath a continual feast", Proverbs 15:15 of spiritual mirth and pleasure, rejoicing always in Christ, as he ought to do: which feast, or course of life, is to be kept "not with old leaven"; in the old, vain, sinful manner of conversation, as before:

neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; not in malice to any man, or one another, nor in any sort of wickedness, living in no known sin, and allowing of it:

but with the unleavened bread of sincerity; as opposed to malice, of sincere love to God and Christ, and to his people: and of truth; of Gospel doctrine, discipline, and conversation.

l Haggada Shel Pesach, p. 4. Ed. Rittangel.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Let us keep the feast - Margin, “Holy day” ἑορτάζωμεν heortazōmen. This 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 - as emblematic of sin - so let us, in the slaying of our sacrifice, and in all the duties, institutions and events consequent thereon, put away all wickedness from our hearts as individuals, and from our societies and churches. Let us engage in the service of God putting away by all evil.”

Not with the old leaven - Not under the influence, or in the indulgence of the feelings of corrupt and unrenewed human nature - The word “leaven” is very expressive of that former or “old” condition, and denotes the corrupt and corrupting passions of our nature before it is renewed.

The leaven of malice - Of unkindness and evil - which would diffuse itself, and pervade the mass of Christians. The word “malice” (κακίας kakias) denotes “evil” in general.

And wickedness - Sin; evil. There is a particular reference here to the case of the incestuous person. Paul means that all wickedness should be put away from those who had been saved by the sacrifice of their “Passover,” Christ; and, therefore, this sin in a special manner.

But with the unleavened bread ... - That is, with sincerity and truth. Let us be sincere, and true, and faithful; as the Jews partook of bread unleavened, which was emblematic of purity, so let us be sincere and true. It is implied here that this could not be done unless they would put away the incestuous person - No Christians can have, or give evidence of sincerity, who are not willing to put away all sin.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Corinthians 5:8. Therefore 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, sect. xii.

Not with old leaven — Under the Christian dispensation we must be saved equally from Judaism, heathenism, and from sin of every kind; malice and wickedness must be destroyed; and sincerity and truth, inward purity and outward holiness, take their place.

The apostle refers here not more to wicked principles than to wicked men; let us keep the feast, not with the old leaven-the impure principles which actuated you while in your heathen state; neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness, κακιας και πονηριας, wickedness, radical depravity, producing unrighteousness in the life; nor with the persons who are thus influenced, and thus act; but with the unleavened bread, αλλ' εν αζυμοις, but with upright and godly men, who have sincerity, ειλικρινεια, such purity of affections and conduct, that even the light of God shining upon them discovers no flaw, and truth-who have received the testimony of God, and who are inwardly as well as outwardly what they profess to be.

The word πονηριας, which we translate wickedness, is so very like to πορνειας, fornication, that some very ancient MSS. have the latter reading instead of the former; which, indeed, seems most natural in this place; as κακιας, which we translate malice, includes every thing that is implied in πονηριας, wickedness whereas πορνειας, as being the subject in question, see 1 Corinthians 5:1, would come more pointedly in here: Not with wickedness and fornication, or rather, not with wicked men and fornicators: but I do not contend for this reading.