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1 Corinthians 5:6-8

6 Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast ^{▼▼ In this passage (5:6–8) yeast represents the presence of evil within the church, specifically the immoral person described in 5:1–5 and mentioned again in 5:13.} affects ^{▼▼ Grk “a little yeast leavens.”} the whole batch of dough? 7 Clean out the old yeast so that you may be a new batch of dough – you are, in fact, without yeast. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. 8 So then, let us celebrate the festival, not with the old yeast, the yeast of vice and evil, but with the bread without yeast, the bread of sincerity and truth. ^{▼▼ Grk “with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.”}