1 Corinthians 5:8 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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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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1 Peter 2:1-2
Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, …
Deuteronomy 16:3
Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread therewith, even the bread of affliction; for thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt in haste: that thou mayest remember the day when thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of thy life.
Exodus 12:15
Seven 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.
Luke 12:1
In the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
Mark 8:15
And he charged them, saying, Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and of the leaven of Herod.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(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.…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 8)

8. not ... old leaven--of our unconverted state as Jews or heathen. malice--the opposite of “sincerity,” which allows no leaven of evil to be mixed up with good (Mt 16:6). wickedness--the opposite of “truth,” which allows not evil to be mistaken for good. The Greek for “malice” means the evil habit of mind; “wickedness,” the outcoming of the same in word and deed. The Greek for “sincerity” express…