1 Corinthians 5:6-8
6 Your glorying is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? 7 Therefore purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, since you truly are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us. 8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
6 Your glorying is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? 7 Therefore purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, since you truly are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us. 8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
Glorying in our position over others or our knowledge and gifts is never good. These come from God, and it is our misuse and abuse that turns them to evil to match our carnal nature. Like yeast, a tiny amount of boasting pride and sinful actions not repented of quickly rise to fill our souls with the stench of festering sin. Christ gave the example of bread with no yeast as a Passover meal, symbolizing keeping sin out. Our yeast as here is often ill will, evil wickedness in thought and deed, and insincerity with lies. We in Christ are or be holy as He is, and to flee sin in imitation of Him as we live truthfully and honestly before God and man. Glorying in anything besides Christ is folly.
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