1 Corinthians 5:6-7:7 NIV

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 5:6-7

"Purge out the old leaven." The apostle sought the illustrations with which he enforced Christian doctrine and duty from every source, Hebrew and Gentile alike. In this passage he derives, from the practices of his countrymen during the festival of the Passover, a figure by which he brings before his readers the necessity of moral purity in life and in fellowship. As the Jews were accustomed at the approach of the feast to search out every scrap of leaven to be found in their houses, that... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 5:6-13

The true Church a feast. "Your glorying is not good," etc. There are numerous Churches, but only one true Church, viz. that community of men who possess the Spirit and exemplify the character of Jesus Christ. These verses lead us to look upon the true Church— I. In its INTERNAL ENJOYMENTS . It is called here a "feast." Truly the association of such Christly spirited men is a "feast" of the sublimest kind, a feast to each and all. A "feast:" 1. Because it contains the choicest... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 5:6-13

Supplementary views and explanations. Was nothing necessary except to get rid of the offender? That was to be done, but something else was quite as much of an exigency. Here, then, we see the extent to which the enormous evil had spread, for the whole Church had been infected. If the vice had assumed in one man the completest form of social iniquity, what was the state of the atmosphere in which this was possible? Such corruption was not sporadic: the whole air was poisoned; and in this... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 1 Corinthians 5:6

Your glorying - Your boasting; or confidence in your present condition, as if you were eminent in purity and piety.Is not good - Is not well, proper, right. Boasting is never good; but it is especially wrong when, as here, there is an existing evil that is likely to corrupt the whole church. When people are disposed to boast, they should at once make the inquiry whether there is not some sin indulged in, on account of which they should be humbled and subdued. If all individual Christians, and... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 1 Corinthians 5:6-8

1 Corinthians 5:6-8. Your glorying Of the flourishing state of your church, or of your gifts, at such a time as this; is not good Is very unseasonable, your church being defiled by tolerating such vices, and thereby exposed to God’s judgments, and also in danger of infection from such an example. Know ye not Who boast so much of your knowledge; that a little leaven One sin or one sinner; leaveneth the whole lump Diffuses guilt and infection perhaps through a whole religious society... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 5:1-13

5:1-6:20 MORAL FAULTS IN THE CHURCHAdulterous living (5:1-13)Paul now turns to the second difficulty that had been reported. In this case the sin was one that would hardly be found even among the pagan Greeks. A man was living in adultery with his father’s wife, probably a minor wife or the wife of a remarriage. Yet the Christians did nothing about the shameful situation. They thought they were so advanced in their Christian experience that there was no need to restrict the freedom of the... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - 1 Corinthians 5:6

glorying = boasting. Greek. kauchema. See Romans 4:2 . not . App-105 . Know . App-132 . See 1 Corinthians 3:16 . leaven . See Matthew 13:33 . leaveneth . See Matthew 13:33 . Figure of speech Paroemia. App-6 . Compare Galatians 1:5 , Galatians 1:9 . lump . Greek. phurama. See Romans 9:21 . read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 5:6

Your glorying is not good. know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?Your glorying ... Their glorying failed to take any note at all of the cancer of immorality in their very midst.A little leaven ... Although there are exceptions, leaven in the New Testament usually refers to some evil principle, in this case unrebuked immorality, which was fully capable of destroying the whole church. This would account for the severity of the judgment imposed. read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - 1 Corinthians 5:6

1 Corinthians 5:6. Your glorying is not good— Some would read this interrogatively,—Have you not a fine subject for boasting?—Glorying or boasting is throughout the beginning of this Epistle spoken, of the preference they gave to their new leader, in opposition to St. Paul. See Locke, and 2 Corinthians 12:0. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - 1 Corinthians 5:6

6. Your glorying in your own attainments and those of your favorite teachers (1 Corinthians 3:21; 1 Corinthians 4:19; 1 Corinthians 5:2), while all the while ye connive at such a scandal, is quite unseemly. a little leaven leaveth . . . whole lump— (Galatians 5:9), namely, with present complicity in the guilt, and the danger of future contagion (1 Corinthians 15:33; 2 Timothy 2:17). read more

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 5:6-7

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 5:6-13

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 5:6-13

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 1 Corinthians 5:6

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 1 Corinthians 5:6-8

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 5:1-13

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - 1 Corinthians 5:6

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 5:6

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - 1 Corinthians 5:6

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - 1 Corinthians 5:6

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