விரிவுரை தற்போது ஆங்கிலத்தில் மட்டுமே கிடைக்கிறது. தமிழ் மொழிபெயர்ப்பு நடைபெறுகிறது.
1 Corinthians 5 — Purge Out Therefore the Old Leaven
It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife. And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned. When ye are gathered together... to deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved. Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump. Christ our passover is sacrificed for us. I wrote unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator. With such an one no not to eat.
“Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:”
— 1 Corinthians 5:7
- v.1-8 The case of incest; purge the leaven
- v.9-13 Do not keep company with the immoral brother
Christ our passover. The believer's identity is rooted in the slain Lamb. The implications for behavior — purge the leaven — flow from the identity.
A useful image for sanctification. You are already unleavened in Christ; live consistently with what you are.
Church discipline applied to professing believers who persist in serious sin. The verse names six categories where withdrawal is required.
Called a brother. Not for non-Christians (v.10). The discipline is for those inside the church who claim Christ while living against Him.
Verse 7 reframes Christian discipline. Christ is your passover; you are already unleavened in Him. Now act like it. Discipline of self and of the church flows from this identity, not from legalism. Live what you are.
Christ as the Passover lamb is the chapter's pivot. Every command for purity in the church rests on what He has done. The chapter's severity toward sin is not pharisaism; it is the natural response of a people whose Saviour bled to make them clean.
Public sin tolerated by a church corrupts the whole. The verse forbids the modern instinct to be non-judgmental about persistent unrepented sin among members.
A little. The amount is not the issue; the principle is. A small unaddressed sin grows.