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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Footnotes

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

Your boasting is not a good thing. Do you not know that a little yeast leavens all of the dough?(A) Clean out the old yeast so that you may be a new batch of dough, as you really are unleavened. For our paschal lamb, Christ, has been sacrificed.(B) Therefore, let us celebrate the festival, not with the old yeast, the yeast of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.(C)

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