1 Corinthians 5:7 - Easy To Read Version Take out all the old yeast (sin), so that you will be a new batch of dough. You really are Passover bread {\cf2\super [30]} without yeast. Yes, Christ, our Passover lamb, {\cf2\super [31]} has already been killed. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Purge (clean out) the old leaven that you may be fresh (new) dough, still uncontaminated [as you are], for Christ, our Passover [Lamb], has been sacrificed. American Standard Version (1901) 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: Common English Bible Clean out the old yeast so you can be a new batch of dough, given that you’re supposed to be unleavened bread. Christ our Passover lamb has been sacrificed, Catholic Public Domain Version Purge the old leaven, so that you may become the new bread, for you are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover, has now been immolated. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new paste, as you are unleavened. For Christ our pasch is sacrificed. |
On this holiday, you will eat bread made without yeast for seven days. On the first day of this holiday, you will remove all the yeast from your houses. No one should eat any yeast for the full seven days of this holiday. If anyone eats yeast, then you must separate that person from the rest of Israel.
Then Jesus told the people another story: “The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman mixes into a big bowl of flour to make bread. The yeast makes all the dough (bread) rise.”
It was now the first day of the Festival of Unleavened Bread. {\cf2\super [197]} This was the day when the Jews killed the lambs for the Passover. {\cf2\super [198]} Jesus’ followers came to him. They said, “We will go and prepare everything for you to eat the Passover meal. Where do you want us to have the meal?”
The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him. John said, “Look, the Lamb of God. {\cf2\super [21]} He takes away the sins of the world!
John saw Jesus walking by. John said, “Look, the Lamb of God {\cf2\super [27]} !”
It was now almost noon on Preparation day {\cf2\super [242]} of Passover {\cf2\super [243]} week. Pilate said to the Jews, “Here is your king!”
God gave Jesus as a way to forgive people’s sins through faith. God forgives by the blood (death) of Jesus. God gave Jesus to show that he always does what is right and fair. God was right in the past when he was patient and did not punish people for their sins.
(There is one loaf of bread. And we are many people. But we all share from that one loaf. So we are really one body.)
You were taught to leave your old self. This means that you must stop living the evil way you lived before. That old self becomes worse and worse, because people are fooled by the evil things they want to do.