Your boasting is not good.(A) Don’t you know that a little yeast(B) leavens the whole batch of dough?(C) Get rid of the old yeast, so that you may be a new unleavened batch—as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.(D) Therefore let us keep the Festival, not with the old bread leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread(E) of sincerity and truth.

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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