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

It is actually reported that there is fornication among you, and of a kind unheard of even among the Gentiles--a man has his father's wife!

Do you not know that unrighteous men will not inherit God's Kingdom? Cherish no delusion here. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor any who are guilty of unnatural crime,

and that upon re-visiting you I may be humbled by my God in your presence, and may have to mourn over many whose hearts still cling to their old sins, and who have not repented of the impurity, fornication, and gross sensuality, of which they have been guilty.

Therefore I warn you, and I implore you in the name of the Master, no longer to live as the Gentiles in their perverseness live,

that in future you may spend the rest of your earthly lives, governed not by human passions, but by the will of God.

Neither

you are still unspiritual. For so long as jealousy and strife continue among you, can it be denied that you are unspiritual and are living and acting like mere men of the world?

and when Jesus said to them, "See to it: beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees,"

and consulted how to get Jesus into their power by stratagem and put Him to death.

and when He admonished them, "See to it, be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees and the yeast of Herod,"

Meanwhile the people had come streaming towards Him by tens of thousands, so that they were trampling one another under foot. And now He proceeded to say to His disciples first, "Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, that is to say, beware of hypocrisy.

So they brought Jesus from Caiaphas's house to the Praetorium. It was the early morning, and they would not enter the Praetorium themselves for fear of defilement, and in order that they might be able to eat the Passover.

For I am afraid that perhaps when I come I may not find you to be what I desire, and that you may find me to be what you do not desire; that perhaps there may be contention, jealousy, bitter feeling, party spirit, ill-natured talk, backbiting, undue eulogy, unrest;

Rid yourselves therefore of all ill-will and all deceitfulness, of insincerity and envy, and of all evil speaking.

But

Jesus saw Nathanael approaching, and said of him, "Look! here is a true Israelite, in whom there is no deceitfulness!"

For the reason for our boasting is this--the testimony of our own conscience that it was in holiness and with pure motives before God, and in reliance not on worldly wisdom but on the gracious help of God, that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and above all in our relations with you.

I am not saying this by way of command, but to test by the standard of other men's earnestness the genuineness of your love also.

May grace be with all who love our Lord Jesus Christ with perfect sincerity.

Dear children, let us not love in words only nor with the lips, but in deed and in truth.

General references

Meanwhile the Festival of the Unleavened Bread, called the Passover, was approaching,