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1 Corinthians 5:6-8
New English Translation
1 Corinthians 5:6-8
New English Translation
6 Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast[a] affects[b] the whole batch of dough? 7 Clean out the old yeast so that you may be a new batch of dough—you are, in fact, without yeast. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. 8 So then, let us celebrate the festival, not with the old yeast, the yeast of vice and evil, but with the bread without yeast, the bread of sincerity and truth.[c]
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- 1 Corinthians 5:6 sn In this passage (5:6-8) yeast represents the presence of evil within the church, specifically the immoral person described in 5:1-5 and mentioned again in 5:13.
- 1 Corinthians 5:6 tn Grk “a little yeast leavens.”
- 1 Corinthians 5:8 tn Grk “with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.”
1 Corinthians 5:6-8
New International Version
1 Corinthians 5:6-8
New International Version
6 Your boasting is not good.(A) Don’t you know that a little yeast(B) leavens the whole batch of dough?(C) 7 Get rid of the old yeast, so that you may be a new unleavened batch—as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.(D) 8 Therefore let us keep the Festival, not with the old bread leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread(E) of sincerity and truth.
1 Corinthians 5:6-8
King James Version
1 Corinthians 5:6-8
King James Version
6 Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
7 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:
8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
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1 Corinthians 5:6-8
New King James Version
1 Corinthians 5:6-8
New King James Version
6 (A)Your glorying is not good. Do you not know that (B)a little leaven leavens the whole lump? 7 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. 8 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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- 1 Corinthians 5:7 clean out
- 1 Corinthians 5:7 NU omits for us
1 Corinthians 5:6-8
English Standard Version
1 Corinthians 5:6-8
English Standard Version
6 (A)Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that (B)a little leaven leavens the whole lump? 7 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. 8 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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