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Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened [bread] of sincerity and truth.

Therefore {G5620} let us keep the feast {G1858}, not {G3361} with {G1722} old {G3820} leaven {G2219}, neither {G3366} with {G1722} the leaven {G2219} of malice {G2549} and {G2532} wickedness {G4189}; but {G235} with {G1722} the unleavened {G106} bread of sincerity {G1505} and {G2532} truth {G225}.

So let us celebrate the Seder not with leftover hametz, the hametz of wickedness and evil, but with the matzah of purity and truth.

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.

wherefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

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Cross-References

  • 1 Peter 2:1 (7 votes)

    ¶ Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,

  • 1 Peter 2:2 (7 votes)

    As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:

  • Exodus 12:15 (6 votes)

    Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.

  • Deuteronomy 16:3 (6 votes)

    Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread therewith, [even] the bread of affliction; for thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt in haste: that thou mayest remember the day when thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of thy life.

  • Luke 12:1 (5 votes)

    ¶ In the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

  • Mark 8:15 (5 votes)

    And he charged them, saying, Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and [of] the leaven of Herod.

  • Matthew 16:6 (5 votes)

    Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.