1 Corinthians 5:7

5:7 Clean out the old yeast so that you may be a new batch of dough – you are, in fact, without yeast. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.

1 Corinthians 5:6

5:6 Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast 1  affects 2  the whole batch of dough?

1 sn In this passage (5:6-8) yeast represents the presence of evil within the church, specifically the immoral person described in 5:1-5 and mentioned again in 5:13.

2 tn Grk “a little yeast leavens.”