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Clean-out the old leaven, in order that you may be a new lump, just as you are unleavened. For indeed, our Passover [Lamb] was sacrificed[a]— Christ. So then let us celebrate-the-feast not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of badness[b] and evilness, but with the unleavened loaves of purity[c] and truth.

Do Not Even Associate With So-Called Brothers Who Continue To Disobey God

I wrote you in the letter[d] not to associate-with[e] sexually-immoral ones—

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 5:7 Or, slaughtered, killed. Paul is applying the Passover celebration to the Corinthians.
  2. 1 Corinthians 5:8 Or, malice.
  3. 1 Corinthians 5:8 Or, sincerity.
  4. 1 Corinthians 5:9 That is, some previous letter; or, this letter.
  5. 1 Corinthians 5:9 Or, keep company with.

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