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8Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
1 Corinthians 5:8 —
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Matthew Henry
(vv. 7-8)Here the apostle exhorts them to purity, by purging out the old leaven. In this observe, I. The advice itself, addressed either, 1. To the church in general; and so purging out the old leaven, that they might be a new lump, refers to the putting away from themselves that wicked person , 1 Cor. 5:13. Note, Christian churches should be pure and holy, and not bear such corrupt and scandalous members....
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