1 Corinthians 5:7

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⁵ hand this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved on the Day of the Lord.

⁶ Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven works through the whole batch of dough?

Get 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.

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.

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

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: Get 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.
KJV: Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:
WEB: Purge out the old yeast, that you may be a new lump, even as you are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, has been sacrificed in our place.
ASV: Purge out the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, even as ye are unleavened. For our passover also hath been sacrificed, [even] Christ:
DARBY: Purge out the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, according as ye are unleavened. For also our passover, Christ, has been sacrificed;
BLB: Cleanse out the old leaven, so that you⁺ may be a new lump, as you⁺ are, unleavened. For also Christ our Passover was sacrificed,

ÅB: Rens derfor ut den gamle surdeig, så dere kan være ny deig, slik som dere er usyrede! for vårt påskelam er jo slaktet: Kristus.
OTB: Fjern den gamle surdeigen, slik at dere kan være en ny deig, akkurat som dere faktisk er usyret. For Kristus, vårt påskelam, er også blitt ofret.
B1930: Rens derfor ut den gamle surdeig, så I kan være ny deig, likesom I er usyrede! for vårt påskelam er jo slaktet: Kristus.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

1 Peter 1:19–20
but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or spot.
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Ephesians 4:22
to put off your former way of life, your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires;
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Colossians 3:5–9
Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry.
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John 1:29
The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
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Exodus 12:15
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.
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Acts 8:32–35
The eunuch was reading this passage of Scripture: “He was led like a sheep to the slaughter, and as a lamb before the shearer is silent, so He did not open His mouth.
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Exodus 13:6–7
For seven days you are to eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a feast to the LORD.
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Exodus 12:5–6
Your lamb must be an unblemished year-old male, and you may take it from the sheep or the goats.
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