⁸ Therefore ^(A)let us keep the feast, ^(B)not with old leaven, nor ^(C)with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

Our Inheritance Through Christ’s Blood

2 Therefore, ^(A)laying aside all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all evil speaking, ^2 (B)as newborn babes, desire the pure ^(C)milk of the word, that you may grow ^[a]thereby,

³ You shall eat no leavened bread with it; ^(A)seven days you shall eat unleavened bread with it, that is, the bread of affliction (for you came out of the land of Egypt in haste), that you may ^(B)remember the day in which you came out of the land of Egypt all the days of your life.

^15 (A)Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the first day you shall remove leaven from your houses. For whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, ^(B)that ^[a]person shall be ^[b]cut off from Israel.

Beware of Hypocrisy^(A)

12 In ^(B)the meantime, when an innumerable multitude of people had gathered together, so that they trampled one another, He began to say to His disciples first of all, ^(C)“Beware of the ^[a]leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

^15 (A)Then He charged them, saying, “Take heed, beware of the ^[a]leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod.”

⁶ Then Jesus said to them, ^(A)“Take heed and beware of the ^[a]leaven of the Pharisees and the Sadducees.”

² that he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh for the lusts of men, ^(A)but for the will of God.

²⁴ Grace be with all those who love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity. Amen.