1 Corinthians 5 Bible study: A new lump

These are the verses the heads-up for leaders names. As the WEB has them: "It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, that one has his father’s wife." (5:1). "You are arrogant, and didn’t mourn instead, that he who had done this deed might be removed from among you." (5:2). "For I most certainly, as being absent in body but present in spirit, have already, as though I were present, judged him who has done this thing." (5:3). "In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when you are gathered together with my spirit with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, you are to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus." (5:4-5). As at 1:11, the letter takes up what has been reported. Behind arrogant (5:2) is the verb the WEB gives as puffed up in the chapter before (4:6, 4:18, 4:19); Favor's 1 Corinthians 4 studies it and counts it. The chapter doesn't say what "the destruction of the flesh" (5:5) is, or what became of the man. After 5:6-8 it goes on: "I wrote to you in my letter to have no company with sexual sinners; yet not at all meaning with the sexual sinners of this world, or with the covetous and extortionists, or with idolaters, for then you would have to leave the world." (5:9-10). "But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortionist. Don’t even eat with such a person." (5:11). "For what do I have to do with also judging those who are outside? Don’t you judge those who are within?" (5:12). "But those who are outside, God judges. “Put away the wicked man from among yourselves.”" (5:13). The chapter says no more of the letter named in 5:9 than these verses do. The WEB prints the last words of 5:13 in quotation marks; the verse names no passage, and these notes don’t supply one. These notes say no more of 5:1-5 or 5:9-13 than these words, and apply none of them to any person, family, group, church or practice today.

Exodus 12:13→leads to1 Corinthians 5:7

"When I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague will be on you to destroy you" (12:13). Paul writes, "For indeed Christ, our Passover, has been sacrificed in our place" (1 Corinthians 5:7). Paul doesn't quote 12:13; he names Christ himself as the Passover. Many Christians read the blood that spared Israel's houses as a picture of Christ's death; others keep to what Paul says, joining Christ to the Passover sacrifice and feast (12:21, 1 Corinthians 5:7-8) without tying him to this verse.

φύραμαphyramasay FOO-ram-ah

Strong's: "a mass of dough". "Don’t you know that a little yeast leavens the whole lump?" (5:6), and "that you may be a new lump" (5:7): behind lump both times is this noun. The New Testament has it five times (counted in RP2018), two of them here. Galatians has the same saying: the Greek of the two is the same six words, and the WEB words them differently, leavens here and grows through there: "A little yeast grows through the whole lump." (Galatians 5:9).