(A)Your boasting is not good. (B)Do you not know that (C)a little [a]leaven leavens the whole lump of dough? 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 also has been sacrificed. Therefore let’s 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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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 5:6 I.e., fermented dough

Your boasting is not good. You know that a little yeast leavens the whole batch of dough, don’t you? Get rid of the old yeast so that you may be a new batch of dough, since you are to be free from yeast. For the Messiah,[a] our Passover, has been sacrificed. So let’s keep celebrating the festival, neither with old yeast nor with yeast that is evil and wicked, but with yeast-free bread that is both sincere and true.

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  1. 1 Corinthians 5:7 Or Christ