1 Corinthians 5:7
Good News Translation
You must remove the old yeast of sin so that you will be entirely pure. Then you will be like a new batch of dough without any yeast, as indeed I know you actually are. For our Passover Festival is ready, now that Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.

New Revised Standard Version
Clean out the old yeast so that you may be a new batch, as you really are unleavened. For our paschal lamb, Christ, has been sacrificed.

Contemporary English Version
Get rid of the old yeast! Then you will be like fresh bread made without yeast, and this is what you are. Our Passover lamb is Christ, who has already been sacrificed.

New American Bible
Clear out the old yeast, so that you may become a fresh batch of dough, inasmuch as you are unleavened. For our paschal lamb, Christ, has been sacrificed.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new paste, as you are unleavened. For Christ our pasch is sacrificed.

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Purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new paste, as you are unleavened. For Christ our pasch is sacrificed.

Purge.

1 Corinthians 5:13 For them that are without, God will judge. Put away the evil one from among yourselves.

Exodus 12:15 Seven days shall you eat unleavened bread: in the first day there shall be no leaven in your houses; whosoever shall eat any thing leavened, from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall perish out of Israel.

Exodus 13:6,7 Seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread: and on the seventh day shall be the solemnity of the Lord. . . .

Ephesians 4:22 To put off, according to former conversation, the old man, who is corrupted according to the desire of error.

Colossians 3:5-9 Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, lust, evil concupiscence and covetousness, which is the service of idols. . . .

ye may.

1 Corinthians 10:17 For we, being many, are one bread, one body: all that partake of one bread.

Christ.

1 Corinthians 15:3,4 For I delivered unto you first of all, which I also received: how that Christ died for our sins, according to the scriptures: . . .

Exodus 12:5,6 And it shall be a lamb without blemish, a male, of one year; according to which rite also you shall take a kid. . . .

Isaiah 53:7-10 He was offered because it was his own will, and he opened not his mouth: he shall be led as a sheep to the slaughter, and shall be dumb as a lamb before his shearer, and he shall not open his mouth. . . .

John 1:29,36 The next day, John saw Jesus coming to him; and he saith: Behold the Lamb of God. Behold him who taketh away the sin of the world. . . .

John 19:14 And it was the parasceve of the pasch, about the sixth hour: and he saith to the Jews: Behold your king.

Acts 8:32-35 And the place of the scripture which he was reading was this: He was led as a sheep to the slaughter: and like a lamb without voice before his shearer, so openeth he not his mouth. . . .

1 Peter 1:19,20 But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb unspotted and undefiled . . .

Revelation 5:6-9,12 And I saw: and behold in the midst of the throne and of the four living creatures and in the midst of the ancients, a Lamb standing, as it were slain, having seven horns and seven eyes: which are the seven Spirits of God, sent forth into all the earth. . . .

sacrificed.

Context
Immorality Rebuked
6Your glorying is not good. Know you not that a little leaven corrupteth the whole lump? 7Purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new paste, as you are unleavened. For Christ our pasch is sacrificed. 8Therefore, let us feast, not with the old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness: but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.…
Cross References
Matthew 13:33
Another parable he spoke to them: The kingdom of heaven is like to leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, until the whole was leavened.

Mark 14:12
Now on the first day of the unleavened bread, when they sacrificed the pasch, the disciples say to him: Whither wilt thou that we go and prepare for thee to eat the pasch?

Romans 3:25
Whom God hath proposed to be a propitiation, through faith in his blood, to the shewing of his justice, for the remission of former sins,

1 Peter 1:19
But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb unspotted and undefiled

1 Corinthians 5:6
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