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1 Corinthians 5

Paul rebukes the church for tolerating a man living with his father's wife and for being proud of it. 'A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump': clean out the old leaven, for Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.

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The first Passover

The letter: who wrote it, where and when

These questions are debated; the views are shown side by side with how sure each is, as in Paul's Roads.

  • Textually stated

    1 Corinthians written from Ephesus

    'I will tarry at Ephesus until Pentecost' (16:8); Aquila and Priscilla and the churches of Asia send greetings (16:19).

  • Textually stated

    1 Corinthians was not Paul's first letter to Corinth.

    1 Corinthians 5:9 refers to an earlier letter, now lost.

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