Focused Passage

1 Corinthians 5:6-8

Purge the Evil, Keep the Feast, and Guard the Holiness of the Church

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

7 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.

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Verse 6

Original words

Your ὑμῶν G4771 Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive 2nd Person Plural - τὸ G3588 Article - Nominative Neuter Singular boasting καύχημα G2745 Noun - Nominative Neuter Singular [is] not Οὐ G3756 Adverb good καλὸν G2570 Adjective - Nominative Neuter Singular vvv οὐκ G3756 Adverb Do you not know οἴδατε G1492 Verb - Perfect Indicative Active - 2nd Person Plural that ὅτι G3754 Conjunction a little μικρὰ G3398 Adjective - Nominative Feminine Singular leaven ζύμη G2219 Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular works through ζυμοῖ G2220 Verb - Present Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular the τὸ G3588 Article - Accusative Neuter Singular whole ὅλον G3650 Adjective - Accusative Neuter Singular batch [of dough] φύραμα G5445 Noun - Accusative Neuter Singular
Verse 7

Original words

Get rid of ἐκκαθάρατε G1571 Verb - Aorist Imperative Active - 2nd Person Plural the τὴν G3588 Article - Accusative Feminine Singular old παλαιὰν G3820 Adjective - Accusative Feminine Singular leaven ζύμην G2219 Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular that ἵνα G2443 Conjunction you may be ἦτε G1510 Verb - Present Subjunctive Active - 2nd Person Plural a new νέον G3501 Adjective - Nominative Neuter Singular unleavened ἄζυμοι G106 Adjective - Nominative Masculine Plural batch φύραμα G5445 Noun - Nominative Neuter Singular as καθώς G2531 Adverb you really are ἐστε G1510 Verb - Present Indicative Active - 2nd Person Plural For γὰρ G1063 Conjunction Christ Χριστός G5547 Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular our ἡμῶν G1473 Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive 1st Person Plural - τὸ G3588 Article - Nominative Neuter Singular Passover lamb πάσχα G3957 Noun - Nominative Neuter Singular - καὶ G2532 Conjunction has been sacrificed ἐτύθη G2380 Verb - Aorist Indicative Passive - 3rd Person Singular
Verse 8

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Therefore ὥστε G5620 Conjunction let us keep the feast ἑορτάζωμεν G1858 Verb - Present Subjunctive Active - 1st Person Plural not μὴ G3361 Adverb with ἐν G1722 Preposition [the] old παλαιᾷ G3820 Adjective - Dative Feminine Singular bread, leavened ζύμῃ G2219 Noun - Dative Feminine Singular . . . μηδὲ G3366 Conjunction . . . ἐν G1722 Preposition . . . ζύμῃ G2219 Noun - Dative Feminine Singular with malice κακίας G2549 Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular and καὶ G2532 Conjunction wickedness πονηρίας G4189 Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular but ἀλλ’ G235 Conjunction with ἐν G1722 Preposition [the] unleavened [bread] ἀζύμοις G106 Adjective - Dative Neuter Plural of sincerity εἰλικρινείας G1505 Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular and καὶ G2532 Conjunction of truth ἀληθείας G225 Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular

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