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Selected Verse: 1 Corinthians 5:8 - King James

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1Co 5:8 King James 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.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
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 (Mat 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" expresses literally, a thing which, when examined by the sun's light, is found pure and unadulterated.
 
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