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

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  1. 1 Corinthians 5:7 Other mss add for us

Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole batch of dough? Clean out the old leaven in order that you may be a new batch of dough, just as you are unleavened. For Christ our Passover has been sacrificed. So then, let us celebrate the feast, not with the old leaven or with the leaven of wickedness and sinfulness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

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