1 Corinthians 5:6-8

Leave the past in the past and live in the newness and grace of our Lord Jesus Christ who gave up His life in place of yours!

 We live not in our righteousness but in His… not in the traditions and hypocrisy of men but in the fullness of the Holy Spirit who leads us away from the sins of the world and into God’s truth.

leaven |ˈlevən|

noun

1 a substance, typically yeast, that is added to dough to make it ferment and rise.

2 a pervasive influence that modifies something or transforms it. 

verb [ with obj. ]

1 (usu. as adj. leavened) cause (dough or bread) to ferment and rise by adding leaven: leavened breads are forbidden during Passover.

2 permeate and modify or transform (something).

As Israel was to remove all leaven from the celebration of the Passover, so the Corinthians were not to contaminate their relationship with Christ with any malice or wickedness.

1 Corinthians 5:6-8

⁶ Your glorying is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? ⁷ Therefore purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, since you truly are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us. ⁸ Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

⁶ Then Jesus said to them, “Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the Sadducees.” 

Matthew 16:6

¹² Then they understood that He did not tell them to beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and Sadducees. 

Matthew 16:12

⁹ A little leaven leavens the whole lump. 

Galatians 5:9

¹⁴ Now it was the Preparation Day of the Passover, and about the sixth hour. And he said to the Jews, “Behold your King!” 

John 19:14