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5 adeliver such a one to bSatan for the destruction of the flesh, that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord1 Jesus.  
6 aYour glorying is not good. Do you not know that ba little leaven leavens the whole lump?  
7 Therefore1 purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, since you truly are unleavened. For indeed aChrist, our bPassover, was sacrificed for us.  
8 Therefore alet us keep the feast, bnot with old leaven, nor cwith the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.  

Immorality Must Be Judged

9 I wrote to you in my epistle anot to keep company with sexually immoral people.  
10 Yet I certainly did not mean with the sexually immoral people of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or idolaters, since then you would need to go aout of the world.  
11 But now I have written to you not to keep company awith anyone named a brother, who is sexually immoral, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner—bnot even to eat with such a person.  
12 For what have I to do with judging those also who are outside? Do you not judge those who are inside?
13 But those who are outside God judges. Therefore a“put away from yourselves the evil person.” 
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1 Corinthians 5:7

Purge out (ekkaqarate). First aorist (effective) active imperative of ekkaqairw, old verb to cleanse out (ek), to clean completely. Aorist tense of urgency, do it now and do it effectively before the whole church is contaminated. This turn to the metaphor is from the command to purge out the old (palaian, now old and decayed) leaven before the passover feast (Exodus 12:15 f.; Exodus 13:7; Zephaniah 1:12). Cf. modern methods of disinfection after a contagious disease.

A new lump (neon furama). Make a fresh start as a new community with the contamination removed. Neov is the root for neaniskov, a young man, not yet old (ghraiov). So new wine (oinon neon Matthew 9:17). Kainov is fresh as compared with the ancient (palaiov). See the distinction in Colossians 3:10; Ephesians 4:22 ff.; II Corinthians 5:17.

Unleavened (azumoi). Without (a privative) leaven, the normal and ideal state of Christians. Rare word among the ancients (once in Plato). They are a new creation (kainh ktisiv), "exemplifying Kant's maxim that you should treat a man as if he were what you would wish him to be" (Robertson and Plummer).

For our passover also hath been sacrificed, even Christ (kai gar to pasxa hmwn etuqh Xristov). First aorist passive indicative of quw, old verb to sacrifice. Euphony of consonants, q to t because of -qh. Reference to the death of Christ on the Cross as the Paschal Lamb (common use of pasxa as Mark 14:12; Luke 22:7), the figure used long before by the Baptist of Jesus (John 1:29). Paul means that the Lamb was already slain on Calvary and yet you have not gotten rid of the leaven.




Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing 1 Corinthians 5:7:

John 1:29
1 Corinthians 1:10
2 Timothy 2:21

 

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