Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast(A) permeates the whole batch of dough?(B)

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6-8 Your flip and callous arrogance in these things bothers me. You pass it off as a small thing, but it’s anything but that. Yeast, too, is a “small thing,” but it works its way through a whole batch of bread dough pretty fast. So get rid of this “yeast.” Our true identity is flat and plain, not puffed up with the wrong kind of ingredient. The Messiah, our Passover Lamb, has already been sacrificed for the Passover meal, and we are the Unraised Bread part of the Feast. So let’s live out our part in the Feast, not as raised bread swollen with the yeast of evil, but as flat bread—simple, genuine, unpretentious.

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(A)Your glorying is not good. Do you not know that (B)a little leaven leavens the whole lump?

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Não está certo que vocês estejam orgulhosos! Vocês conhecem aquele ditado: “Um pouco de fermento fermenta toda a massa.”

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