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, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:
• Eph 4:22That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
• Col 3:5–9Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
• Exod 12:5–6Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:
• Isa 53:7–10He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
• Acts 8:32–35The place of the scripture which he read was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth:
• Exod 12:15Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.
• John 1:29The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
• Rev 5:12Saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing.
• Exod 13:6–7Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh day shall be a feast to the LORD.
• 1 Cor 15:3–4For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
• 1 Cor 10:17For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread.
• John 19:14And it was the preparation of the passover, and about the sixth hour: and he saith unto the Jews, Behold your King!
• Mark 14:12And the first day of unleavened bread, when they killed the passover, his disciples said unto him, Where wilt thou that we go and prepare that thou mayest eat the passover?
• 1 Cor 5:13But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.
• John 1:36And looking upon Jesus as he walked, he saith, Behold the Lamb of God!
• Rev 5:6–9And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.

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