1 Corinthians 5:8

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

“You looked for much, and, behold, it came to little; and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why?” says Yahweh of Armies, “Because of my house that lies waste, while each of you is busy with his own house.

For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,

They came into the house and saw the young child with Mary, his mother, and they fell down and worshiped him. Opening their treasures, they offered to him gifts: gold, frankincense, and myrrh.

Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

You shall redeem the firstborn of a donkey with a lamb. If you will not redeem it, then you shall break its neck. You shall redeem all the firstborn of your sons. No one shall appear before me empty.

“Now therefore put away the foreign gods which are among you, and incline your heart to Yahweh, the God of Israel.”

Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, “If you are returning to Yahweh with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you, and direct your hearts to Yahweh, and serve him only; and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.”

Solomon offered burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar which he built to Yahweh three times per year, burning incense with them, on the altar that was before Yahweh. So he finished the house.

even as the duty of every day required, offering according to the commandment of Moses, on the Sabbaths, on the new moons, and on the set feasts, three times per year, during the feast of unleavened bread, during the feast of weeks, and during the feast of booths.

Ascribe to Yahweh the glory due to his name. Bring an offering, and come into his courts.

They baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought out of Egypt; for it wasn’t leavened, because they were thrust out of Egypt, and couldn’t wait, and they had not prepared any food for themselves.

Now, Israel, what does Yahweh your God require of you, but to fear Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, and to serve Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul,

Hannah answered, “No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit. I have not been drinking wine or strong drink, but I poured out my soul before Yahweh.

Only fear Yahweh, and serve him in truth with all your heart; for consider what great things he has done for you.

For first of all, when you come together in the assembly, I hear that divisions exist among you, and I partly believe it.

Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”

A little yeast grows through the whole lump.

In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you.

The uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that soul shall be cut off from his people. He has broken my covenant.”

“ ‘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.

There shall be no yeast found in your houses for seven days, for whoever eats that which is leavened, that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is a foreigner, or one who is born in the land.

“You shall observe a feast to me three times a year.

You shall observe the feast of unleavened bread. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month Abib (for in it you came out of Egypt), and no one shall appear before me empty.

Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord Yahweh.

“You shall keep the feast of unleavened bread. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month Abib; for in the month Abib you came out of Egypt.

But the man who is clean, and is not on a journey, and fails to keep the Passover, that soul shall be cut off from his people. Because he didn’t offer the offering of Yahweh in its appointed season, that man shall bear his sin.

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 out of the land of Egypt in haste) that you may remember the day when you came out of the land of Egypt all the days of your life.

If you will fear Yahweh, and serve him, and listen to his voice, and not rebel against the commandment of Yahweh, then both you and also the king who reigns over you are followers of Yahweh your God.

The children of Israel who were present at Jerusalem kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with great gladness. The Levites and the priests praised Yahweh day by day, singing with loud instruments to Yahweh.

We took sweet fellowship together. We walked in God’s house with company.

I was glad when they said to me, “Let’s go to Yahweh’s house!”

where the tribes go up, even Yah’s tribes, according to an ordinance for Israel, to give thanks to Yahweh’s name.

Her merchandise and her wages will be holiness to Yahweh. It will not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise will be for those who dwell before Yahweh, to eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing.

The prince shall go in with them when they go in. When they go out, he shall go out.

‘These people draw near to me with their mouth, and honor me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.

They sent some of the Pharisees and the Herodians to him, that they might trap him with words.

Paul, looking steadfastly at the council, said, “Brothers, I have lived before God in all good conscience until today.”

For it has been reported to me concerning you, my brothers, by those who are from Chloe’s household, that there are contentions among you.

But this I say by way of concession, not of commandment.

Therefore don’t be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed.

But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.

The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God’s will remains forever.

Beloved, if our hearts don’t condemn us, we have boldness toward God;

In their mouth was found no lie, for they are blameless.

Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord Yahweh, the God of Israel.

“ ‘No meal offering which you shall offer to Yahweh shall be made with yeast; for you shall burn no yeast, nor any honey, as an offering made by fire to Yahweh.

“ ‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s wife. It is your father’s nakedness.

On the fifteenth day of this month shall be a feast. Unleavened bread shall be eaten for seven days.

Six days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to Yahweh your God. You shall do no work.

You shall be blameless with Yahweh your God.

A man shall not take his father’s wife, and shall not uncover his father’s skirt.

This man went up out of his city from year to year to worship and to sacrifice to Yahweh of Armies in Shiloh. The two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, priests to Yahweh, were there.

“Now my soul is poured out within me. Days of affliction have taken hold of me.

Trust in him at all times, you people. Pour out your heart before him. God is a refuge for us.

At that time, Herod the tetrarch heard the report concerning Jesus,

Jesus said to them, “Take heed and beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”

He warned them, saying, “Take heed: beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and the yeast of Herod.”

They took him, beat him, and sent him away empty.

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.

But it is not as though the word of God has come to nothing. For they are not all Israel that are of Israel.

We also speak these things, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things.

You are arrogant, and didn’t mourn instead, that he who had done this deed might be removed from among you.

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, or riots,

But if you bite and devour one another, be careful that you don’t consume one another.

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

He urged them greatly, and they came in with him, and entered into his house. He made them a feast, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.

They shall eat the meat in that night, roasted with fire, and unleavened bread. They shall eat it with bitter herbs.

These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me, how I used to go with the crowd, and led them to God’s house, with the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping a holy day.

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.

He said to them, “Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man’s life doesn’t consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses.”

I command you before God, who gives life to all things, and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate testified the good confession,

Remind them of these things, charging them in the sight of the Lord, that they don’t argue about words, to no profit, to the subverting of those who hear.

Afterward Moses and Aaron came, and said to Pharaoh, “This is what Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘Let my people go, that they may hold a feast to me in the wilderness.’ ”

Moses said to the people, “Remember this day, in which you came out of Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by strength of hand Yahweh brought you out from this place. No leavened bread shall be eaten.

Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh day shall be a feast to Yahweh.

When Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made a proclamation, and said, “Tomorrow shall be a feast to Yahweh.”

That which is left of it Aaron and his sons shall eat. It shall be eaten without yeast in a holy place. They shall eat it in the court of the Tent of Meeting.

On the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread to Yahweh. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread.

Three times in a year all of your males shall appear before Yahweh your God in the place which he chooses: in the feast of unleavened bread, in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of booths. They shall not appear before Yahweh empty.

“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.

Blessed is the man to whom Yahweh doesn’t impute iniquity, in whose spirit there is no deceit.

Like the profane mockers in feasts, they gnashed their teeth at me.

In this mountain, Yahweh of Armies will make all peoples a feast of choice meat, a feast of choice wines, of choice meat full of marrow, of well refined choice wines.

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.

Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said about him, “Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!”

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?

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.

Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast leavens the whole lump?

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.

For we are not as so many, peddling the word of God. But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.

I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love.

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander be put away from you, with all malice.

Grace be with all those who love our Lord Jesus Christ with incorruptible love. Amen.

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.

Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,