1 Corinthians 5:8

Immoral Behavior And Church Discipline

⁷ You must clean out the old yeast, that you may be a fresh lump, as you are to be free from the old yeast. For our Passover Lamb, Christ, has already been sacrificed. ⁸ So let us keep our feast, not with old yeast nor with the yeast of vice and wickedness, but with the bread of purity and truth without the yeast. ⁹ I wrote you in my letter to stop associating with sexually immoral people --

Former Days

Let Us

Unleavened Bread

Bread Without Yeast

Non

Sin

Matthew 16:6

And Jesus said to them, "Look out, and keep on guarding yourselves against the yeast of the Pharisees and the Sadducees!"

Matthew 16:12

Then they understood that He meant, guard yourselves not against yeast for bread, but against the teaching of the Pharisees and the Sadducees.

Mark 8:15

Then He kept warning them by saying, "Look out! Keep on guarding yourselves against the yeast of the Pharisees and the yeast of Herod."

Luke 12:1

Meanwhile as the people had gathered in tens of thousands, so that they were trampling upon one another, He began to say, first of all, to His disciples: "Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, that is, hypocrisy.

Matthew 26:4-5

and plotted to arrest Jesus by stratagem and put Him to death.

John 1:47

Jesus saw Nathaniel coming toward Him, and said of him, "Here is a genuine Israelite with no deceit in him!"

John 18:28-30

Then they took Jesus from Caiaphas to the governor's palace. It was early in the morning, and they would not go into the governor's palace themselves, in order not to be defiled, so as to be unfit to eat the Passover supper.

1 Corinthians 3:3

for you are still unspiritual. For when there are still jealousy and wrangling among you, are you not still unspiritual and living by a human standard?

1 Corinthians 5:1

A case of immorality is reported as actually existing among you, an immorality unheard of even among the heathen that a man cohabits with his father's wife.

1 Corinthians 5:6

Your ground for boasting about such a case is not good. Are you not aware that a little yeast will change the whole lump of dough?

1 Corinthians 6:9-11

Do you not know that wrongdoers will not have a share in the kingdom of God? Stop being misled; people who are sexually immoral or idolaters or adulterers or sensual or guilty of unnatural sexual vice

2 Corinthians 1:12

For my boast is this, to which my conscience testifies, that before the world, but especially before you, I have acted from pure motives and in sincerity before God, not depending on worldly wisdom but on God's unmerited favor.

2 Corinthians 8:8

I am not saying this in the spirit of a command, but I am simply trying to test the genuineness of your love by the enthusiasm of others.

2 Corinthians 12:20-21

I repeat it, I am apprehensive that, somehow or other, there may be quarreling, jealousy, anger, rivalries, slanders, gossiping, haughty pride, and disorders,

Ephesians 4:17-22

So I mean this and now testify to it in the name of the Lord: You must now stop living as the heathen usually do, in the frivolity of their minds,

Ephesians 6:24

Spiritual blessing be with all who have an undying love for our Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Peter 2:1-2

So once for all get rid of all malice, deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all sorts of slander,

1 Peter 4:2

so that he no longer can spend the rest of his earthly life in harmony with human desires but in accordance with God's will.

1 John 3:18-21

Dear children, let us stop loving with words or lips alone, but let us love with actions and in truth.