Day 15 in the Word: 1 Corinthians 5:6-8

About the passage

I love mangos. So sweet, excellent and tasty. But occasionally if you let any fruit sit too long, it will go bad. The rot spreads so quickly. If a rotten piece of fruit mixes with good fruit, the good fruit will also go bad. Paul tells the truth regarding callous rotten arrogance that was being displayed by those in Corinth. It was stinky and would ruin everything. His directions were clear; quickly get rid of the bad junk and replace it with what is simple, genuine and unpretentious. Looking at this text will help us consider how to the replacement process of bad “fruit/yeast” to good should go.

Rev. Gregory Dyson

Vice President for Spiritual Life and Intercultural Leadership | Campus Pastor

Day 15: 1 Corinthians 5:6-8

⁶ Your boasting about this is terrible. Don’t you realize that this sin is like a little yeast that spreads through the whole batch of dough? ⁷ Get rid of the old “yeast” by removing this wicked person from among you. Then you will be like a fresh batch of dough made without yeast, which is what you really are. Christ, our Passover Lamb, has been sacrificed for us. ⁸ So let us celebrate the festival, not with the old bread of wickedness and evil, but with the new bread of sincerity and truth.

Questions

What does the passage say? / What is happening in the text?

How does this impact me? / What is significant or noteworthy?

What does this mean in my life? / What does this mean to me?