Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little leaven[a](A) leavens the whole batch of dough?(B) Clean out the old leaven so that you may be a new unleavened batch, as indeed you are. For Christ our Passover lamb(C) has been sacrificed.[b] Therefore, let us observe the feast, not with old leaven or with the leaven of malice and evil,(D) but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

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  1. 5:6 Or yeast, also in vv. 7,8
  2. 5:7 Other mss add for us

Your boasting about this is terrible. Don’t you realize that this sin is like a little yeast that spreads through the whole batch of dough? Get rid of the old “yeast” by removing this wicked person from among you. Then you will be like a fresh batch of dough made without yeast, which is what you really are. Christ, our Passover Lamb, has been sacrificed for us.[a] So let us celebrate the festival, not with the old bread[b] of wickedness and evil, but with the new bread[c] of sincerity and truth.

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Footnotes

  1. 5:7 Greek has been sacrificed.
  2. 5:8a Greek not with old leaven.
  3. 5:8b Greek but with unleavened [bread].