1 Corinthians 5:8 “Therefore let us keep the feast, not with the old bread, leavened with…”

1 Corinthians 5:8

Therefore let us keep the feast, not with the old bread, leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and of truth.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

World English Bible

Therefore let’s keep the feast, not with old yeast, neither with the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

American Standard Version

wherefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

Geneva Bible 1599

Therefore let vs keepe the feast, not with olde leauen, neither in the leauen of maliciousnes and wickednesse: but with the vnleauened bread of synceritie and trueth.

Darby Translation

so that let us celebrate the feast, not with old leaven, nor with leaven of malice and wickedness, but with unleavened [bread] of sincerity and truth.

Young's Literal Translation

so that we may keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of evil and wickedness, but with unleavened food of sincerity and truth.

Bible in Basic English

Let us then keep the feast, not with old leaven, and not with the leaven of evil thoughts and acts, but with the unleavened bread of true thoughts and right feelings.

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Cross references

“let”

Exodus 12:15 Leviticus 23:6 Isaiah 25:6 Exodus 13:6 Deuteronomy 16:16 Numbers 28:16

Exodus 12:15 · BSB

For seven days you must eat unleavened bread. On the first day you are to remove the leaven from your houses. Whoever eats anything leavened from the first day through the seventh must be cut off from Israel.

Leviticus 23:6 · BSB

On the fifteenth day of the same month begins the Feast of Unleavened Bread to the LORD. For seven days you must eat unleavened bread.

Isaiah 25:6 · BSB

On this mountain the LORD of Hosts will prepare a lavish banquet for all the peoples, a feast of aged wine, of choice meat, of finely aged wine.

Exodus 13:6 · BSB

For seven days you are to eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a feast to the LORD.

Deuteronomy 16:16 · BSB

Three times a year all your men are to appear before the LORD your God in the place He will choose: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Tabernacles. No one should appear before the LORD…

Numbers 28:16 · BSB

The fourteenth day of the first month is the LORD’s Passover.

“feast”

Psalm 42:4 Isaiah 30:29

Psalm 42:4 · BSB

These things come to mind as I pour out my soul: how I walked with the multitude, leading the festive procession to the house of God with shouts of joy and praise.

Isaiah 30:29 · BSB

You will sing as on the night of a holy festival, and your heart will rejoice like one who walks to the music of a flute, going up to the mountain of the LORD, to the Rock of Israel.

“not”

Deuteronomy 16:3 1 Corinthians 5:6 1 Corinthians 6:9–11 1 Peter 4:2 1 Corinthians 5:1 Ephesians 4:17–22

Deuteronomy 16:3 · BSB

You must not eat leavened bread with it; for seven days you are to eat with it unleavened bread, the bread of affliction, because you left the land of Egypt in haste—so that you may remember for the rest of your life the…

1 Corinthians 5:6 · BSB

Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven works through the whole batch of dough?

1 Corinthians 6:9–11 · BSB

Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual acts,

1 Peter 4:2 · BSB

Consequently, he does not live out his remaining time on earth for human passions, but for the will of God.

1 Corinthians 5:1 · BSB

It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is intolerable even among pagans: A man has his father’s wife.

Ephesians 4:17–22 · BSB

So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.

“neither”

Matthew 16:6 Mark 8:15 Luke 12:1 Matthew 16:12 1 Corinthians 3:3 John 18:28–30

Matthew 16:6 · BSB

“Watch out!” Jesus told them. “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”

Mark 8:15 · BSB

“Watch out!” He cautioned them. “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of Herod.”

Luke 12:1 · BSB

In the meantime, a crowd of many thousands had gathered, so that they were trampling one another. Jesus began to speak first to His disciples: “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

Matthew 16:12 · BSB

Then they understood that He was not telling them to beware of the leaven used in bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

1 Corinthians 3:3 · BSB

for you are still worldly. For since there is jealousy and dissension among you, are you not worldly? Are you not walking in the way of man?

John 18:28–30 · BSB

Then they led Jesus away from Caiaphas into the Praetorium. By now it was early morning, and the Jews did not enter the Praetorium, to avoid being defiled and unable to eat the Passover.

“but”

John 1:47 Ephesians 6:24 Psalm 32:2 Joshua 24:14 2 Corinthians 1:12 2 Corinthians 8:8

John 1:47 · BSB

When Jesus saw Nathanael approaching, He said of him, “Here is a true Israelite, in whom there is no deceit.”

Ephesians 6:24 · BSB

Grace to all who love our Lord Jesus Christ with an undying love.

Psalm 32:2 · BSB

Blessed is the man whose iniquity the LORD does not count against him, in whose spirit there is no deceit.

Joshua 24:14 · BSB

Now, therefore, fear the LORD and serve Him in sincerity and truth; cast aside the gods your fathers served beyond the Euphrates and in Egypt, and serve the LORD.

2 Corinthians 1:12 · BSB

For this is our boast: Our conscience testifies that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially in relation to you, in the holiness and sincerity that are from God—not in worldly wisdom, but in the grace of…

2 Corinthians 8:8 · BSB

I am not giving a command, but I am testing the sincerity of your love through the earnestness of others.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

7Get rid of the old leaven, that you may be a new unleavened batch, as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.

9I wrote you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people.

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