1 Corinthians 5:8

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Therefore 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.

Not

1 Peter 4:2

Neither

But

1 John 3:18

General references

Luke 22:1

Bible References

Not

we have it from all quarters, that incest is practis'd among you, and such as is not among the Gentiles, that of a man's having his father's wife.

Know you not that the unjust shall not inherit the kingdom of God? be not deceived: neither the licentious, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor the effeminate, nor the brutal,

and I am afraid, God will humble me when I come again among you, and I shall bewail many who have formerly sinned, and have not yet repented of their impurity, their fornication, and dissoluteness.

This I say therefore, and conjure you by the Lord not to live for the future as other Gentiles do, in the vanity of their minds,

so that for the future he does not pass the rest of this life in gratifying his sensual passions, but in conformity to the divine precepts.

Neither

for you are still subject to your passions. since envy, and strife, and divisions are among you, are you not actuated by the vices of the animal part?

and Jesus said to them, have a care of the leaven of the Pharisees, and of the Sadducees.

and consulted how to seize Jesus by surprize, and take away his life.

as he was then directing them diligently to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and of the leaven of Herod,

In the mean time thousands of people being gather'd about him, so as to trample upon one another, he first address'd himself thus to his disciples, beware of the corrupt doctrine of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

Then they led Jesus early in the morning from Caiaphas, to the Pretorium: but the Jews themselves did not enter into the Pretorium, lest they should be defiled: and so not be in a condition to eat the passover.

yet I fear when I do come I shall not find you such as I would, and that you will find me such as you least desire: I am afraid there are among you debates, envyings, animosities, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, arrogance, tumults:

Renouncing therefore every kind of malice, and knavery, hypocrisy, envy, and detraction, as new-born infants desire that mystical milk,

But

Jesus seeing Nathanael coming, said of him, there's a true Israelite, in whom is no guile. how do you know me?

for this is to me matter of glorying, the testimony of my conscience, that without artifice, and with religious sincerity, not by worldly wisdom, but by God's favourable assistance I have behaved my self towards all men, but more particularly to you.

I don't mean to prescribe to you, but that the zeal of others may show you are as sincerely well-affected.

grace be with all those that have love uncorrupted for our Lord Jesus Christ. amen.

my dear children, let not our love be only in the language of our lips, but in the real effects of the heart.

General references

Now the feast of unleaven'd bread, which is call'd the passover,