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1 Corinthians 5:6-8
New Testament for Everyone
1 Corinthians 5:6-8
New Testament for Everyone
Get rid of the “leaven”!
6 Your boasting is no good. Don’t you know that a little leaven works its way through the whole lump of dough? 7 Cleanse out the old leaven, so that you can be a new lump, the leaven-free lump you really are. It’s Passover-time, you see, and our Passover lamb—the Messiah, I mean—has already been sacrificed! 8 What we now have to do is to keep the festival properly: none of the leaven of the old life, and none of the leaven of depravity and wickedness, either. What we need is leaven-free bread, and that means sincerity and truth.
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