(A)Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that (B)a little leaven leavens the whole lump? Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. Let us therefore celebrate the festival, (C)not with the old leaven, (D)the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

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(A)Your glorying is not good. Do you not know that (B)a little leaven leavens the whole lump? Therefore [a]purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, since you truly are unleavened. For indeed (C)Christ, our (D)Passover, was sacrificed [b]for us. Therefore (E)let us keep the feast, (F)not with old leaven, nor (G)with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 5:7 clean out
  2. 1 Corinthians 5:7 NU omits for us