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 precious blood, as of a lamb without blemish or spot, the blood of Christ;
• Eph 4:22that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man, that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit;
• Col 3:5–9Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;
• Exod 12:5–6Your lamb shall be without defect, a male a year old. You shall take it from the sheep, or from the goats:
• Isa 53:7–10He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he didn’t open his mouth. As a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he didn’t open his mouth.
• Acts 8:32–35Now the passage of the Scripture which he was reading was this, “He was led as a sheep to the slaughter. As a lamb before his shearer is silent, so he doesn’t open his mouth.
• Exod 12:15“‘Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread; even the first day you shall put away yeast out of your houses, for whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.
• John 1:29The next day, he saw Jesus coming to him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
• Rev 5:12saying with a loud voice, “Worthy is the Lamb who has been killed to receive the power, wealth, wisdom, strength, honor, glory, and blessing!”
• Exod 13:6–7Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh day shall be a feast to Yahweh.
• 1 Cor 15:3–4For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,
• 1 Cor 10:17Because there is one loaf of bread, we, who are many, are one body; for we all partake of the one loaf of bread.
• John 19:14Now it was the Preparation Day of the Passover, at about the sixth hour. He said to the Jews, “Behold, your King!”
• Mark 14:12On the first day of unleavened bread, when they sacrificed the Passover, his disciples asked him, “Where do you want us to go and prepare that you may eat the Passover?”
• 1 Cor 5:13But those who are outside, God judges. “Put away the wicked man from among yourselves.”
• John 1:36and he looked at Jesus as he walked, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God!”
• Rev 5:6–9I saw in the middle of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the middle of the elders, a Lamb standing, as though it had been slain, having seven horns, and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God, sent out into all the earth.

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