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1 Corinthians 5:8

Twentieth Century New Testament 1904

Therefore let us keep our festival, not with the leaven of former days, nor with the leaven of vice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

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Then they understood that he had told them to be on their guard, not against the leaven of bread, but against the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

Presently Jesus said to them: "Take care and be on your guard against the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees."

So Jesus gave them this warning. "Take care," he said, "beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod."

Meanwhile the people had gathered in thousands, so that they trod upon one another, when Jesus, addressing himself to his disciples, began by saying to them: "Be on your guard against the leaven--that is, the hypocrisy--of the Pharisees.

When Jesus saw Nathanael coming towards him, he said: "Here is a true Israelite, in whom there is no deceit!"

While there exist among you jealousy and party feeling, is it not true that you are worldly, and are acting merely as other men do?

There is a wide-spread report respecting a case of immorality among you, and that, too, of a kind that does not occur even among the Gentiles-a man, I hear, is living with his father's wife!

Your boasting is unseemly. Do not you know that even a little leaven leavens all the dough?

Indeed, our main ground for satisfaction is this--Our conscience tells us that our conduct in the world, and still more in our relations with you, was marked by a purity of motive and a sincerity that were inspired by God, and was based, not on worldly policy, but on the help of God.

Unlike many people, we are not in the habit of making profit out of God's Message; but in all sincerity, and bearing God's commission, we speak before him in union with Christ.

I am not laying a command upon you, but I am making use of the earnestness shown by others to test the genuineness of your affection.

May God's blessing be with all who love our Lord Jesus Christ with an undying love.

and so will live the rest of his earthly life guided, not by human passions, but by the will of God.




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