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Your boast is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? Clean-out the old leaven, in order that you may be a new lump, just as you are unleavened. For indeed, our Passover [Lamb] was sacrificed[a]— Christ. So then let us celebrate-the-feast not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of badness[b] and evilness, but with the unleavened loaves of purity[c] and truth.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 5:7 Or, slaughtered, killed. Paul is applying the Passover celebration to the Corinthians.
  2. 1 Corinthians 5:8 Or, malice.
  3. 1 Corinthians 5:8 Or, sincerity.

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