1 Corinthians 5:7

They must purge the old yeast to be a fresh lump, for Christ our Passover lamb has been sacrificed. It matters because the gospel both makes us new and calls us to live out that newness in purity.

Cross-references · 17

• 1 Pet 1:19–20but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or spot.
• Eph 4:22to put off your former way of life, your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires;
• Col 3:5–9Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry.
• Exod 12:5–6Your lamb must be an unblemished year-old male, and you may take it from the sheep or the goats.
• Isa 53:7–10He was oppressed and afflicted, yet He did not open His mouth. He was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is silent, so He did not open His mouth.
• Acts 8:32–35The eunuch was reading this passage of Scripture: “He was led like a sheep to the slaughter, and as a lamb before the shearer is silent, so He did not open His mouth.
• Exod 12:15For seven days you must eat unleavened bread. On the first day you are to remove the leaven from your houses. Whoever eats anything leavened from the first day through the seventh must be cut off from Israel.
• 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!
• Rev 5:12In a loud voice they were saying: “Worthy is the Lamb, who was slain, to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and blessing!”
• Exod 13:6–7For seven days you are to eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a feast to the LORD.
• 1 Cor 15:3–4For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,
• 1 Cor 10:17Because there is one loaf, we who are many are one body; for we all partake of the one loaf.
• John 19:14It was the day of Preparation for the Passover, about the sixth hour. And Pilate said to the Jews, “Here is your King!”
• Mark 14:12On the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, when the Passover lamb was to be sacrificed, Jesus’ disciples asked Him, “Where do You want us to prepare for You to eat the Passover?”
• 1 Cor 5:13God will judge those outside. “Expel the wicked man from among you.”
• John 1:36When he saw Jesus walking by, he said, “Look, the Lamb of God!”
• Rev 5:6–9Then I saw a Lamb who appeared to have been slain, standing in the center of the throne, encircled by the four living creatures and the elders. The Lamb had seven horns and seven eyes, which represent the seven Spirits of God sent out into all the earth.

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