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(A)Your boasting is not good. (B)Do you not know that (C)a little leaven leavens the whole lump? Clean out the old leaven so that you may be a new lump, just as you are in fact unleavened. For Christ, our (D)Passover lamb, also was sacrificed. Therefore let us celebrate the feast, (E)not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

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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].