1 Corinthians 5:8

World English Bible (2000)

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

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ὥστε ἑορτάζωμεν, μὴ ἐν ζύμῃ παλαιᾷ, μηδὲ ἐν ζύμῃ κακίας καὶ πονηρίας· ἀλλʼ ἐν ἀζύμοις εἰλικρινείας καὶ ἀληθείας.

Transliteration

Therefore let us heortazōmen, not with zymē palaia, nor with zymē kakias and ponērias, but with azymois eilikroneias and alētheias.

Grammar Details

• *heortazōmen*: present active subjunctive, 1st plural - let us celebrate/keep the feast
• *zymē*: dative, feminine, singular - leaven/yeast
• *palaia*: dative, feminine, singular - old
• *kakias*: genitive, feminine, singular - malice/evil
• *ponērias*: genitive, feminine, singular - wickedness/evil
• *azymois*: dative, neuter, plural - unleavened bread
• *eilikroneias*: genitive, feminine, singular - sincerity/purity
• *alētheias*: genitive, feminine, singular - truth

Word Meanings

• *heortazōmen*: celebrate/keep the feast/observe the festival
• *zymē palaia*: old leaven/former yeast
• *kakias*: malice/evil/wickedness
• *ponērias*: wickedness/depravity/evil
• *azymois*: unleavened bread/purity
• *eilikroneias*: sincerity/purity/authenticity
• *alētheias*: truth/reality

Referenced Verses

• Exod 12:15 : 15 "'Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread; even the first day you shall put away yeast out of your houses, for whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.
• Deut 16:3 : 3 You shall eat no leavened bread with it. You shall eat unleavened bread with it seven days, even the bread of affliction; for you came forth out of the land of Egypt in haste: that you may remember the day when you came forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of your life.
• Matt 16:6 : 6 Jesus said to them, "Take heed and beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees."
• Mark 8:15 : 15 He warned them, saying, "Take heed: beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and the yeast of Herod."
• Luke 12:1 : 1 Meanwhile, when a multitude of many thousands had gathered together, so much so that they trampled on each other, he began to tell his disciples first of all, "Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
• Matt 16:12 : 12 Then they understood that he didn't tell them to beware of the yeast of bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.
• Ps 42:4 : 4 These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me, how I used to go with the crowd, and led them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping a holy day.
• Isa 25:6 : 6 In this mountain, Yahweh of Armies will make all peoples a feast of fat things, a feast of choice wines, of fat things full of marrow, of well refined choice wines.
• Isa 30:29 : 29 You will have a song, as in the night when a holy feast is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goes with a flute to come to Yahweh's mountain, to Israel's Rock.
• Matt 26:4-5 : 4 They took counsel together that they might take Jesus by deceit, and kill him. 5 But they said, "Not during the feast, lest a riot occur among the people."
• Deut 16:16 : 16 Three times in a year shall all your males appear before Yahweh your God in the place which he shall choose: in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tents; and they shall not appear before Yahweh empty:
• Josh 24:14 : 14 "Now therefore fear Yahweh, and serve him in sincerity and in truth. Put away the gods which your fathers served beyond the River, in Egypt; and serve Yahweh.
• Ps 32:2 : 2 Blessed is the man to whom Yahweh doesn't impute iniquity, in whose spirit there is no deceit.
• Exod 13:6 : 6 Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh day shall be a feast to Yahweh.
• Lev 23:6 : 6 On the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread to Yahweh. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread.
• Num 28:16-17 : 16 "'In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, is Yahweh's Passover. 17 On the fifteenth day of this month shall be a feast: seven days shall unleavened bread be eaten.
• John 1:47 : 47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said about him, "Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!"
• John 18:28-30 : 28 They led Jesus therefore from Caiaphas into the Praetorium. It was early, and they themselves didn't enter into the Praetorium, that they might not be defiled, but might eat the Passover. 29 Pilate therefore went out to them, and said, "What accusation do you bring against this man?" 30 They answered him, "If this man weren't an evildoer, we wouldn't have delivered him up to you."
• 1 Cor 3:3 : 3 for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions among you, aren't you fleshly, and don't you walk in the ways of men?
• 1 Cor 5:1 : 1 It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, that one has his father's wife.
• 1 Cor 5:6 : 6 Your boasting is not good. Don't you know that a little yeast leavens the whole lump?
• 1 Cor 6:9-9 : 9 Or don't you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don't be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, 10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor extortioners, will inherit the Kingdom of God. 11 Such were some of you, but you were washed. But you were sanctified. But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.
• 2 Cor 1:12 : 12 For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.
• 2 Cor 8:8 : 8 I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love.
• 2 Cor 12:20-21 : 20 For I am afraid that by any means, when I come, I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you don't desire; that by any means there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, whisperings, proud thoughts, riots; 21 that again when I come my God would humble me before you, and I would mourn for many of those who have sinned before now, and not repented of the uncleanness and sexual immorality and lustfulness which they committed.
• Eph 4:17-22 : 17 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind, 18 being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts; 19 who having become callous gave themselves up to lust, to work all uncleanness with greediness. 20 But you did not learn Christ that way; 21 if indeed you heard him, and were taught in him, even as truth is in Jesus: 22 that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man, that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit;
• Eph 6:24 : 24 Grace be with all those who love our Lord Jesus Christ with incorruptible love. Amen.
• 1 Pet 2:1-2 : 1 Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking, 2 as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that you may grow thereby,
• 1 Pet 4:2 : 2 that you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.
• 1 John 3:18-21 : 18 My little children, let's not love in word only, neither with the tongue only, but in deed and truth. 19 And by this we know that we are of the truth, and persuade our hearts before him, 20 because if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things. 21 Beloved, if our hearts don't condemn us, we have boldness toward God;