And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning,
the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.
Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened.
For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:
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.
“Take heed
to thyself that thou be not snared by following them [pagan religious customs]
and that thou inquire not after their gods
“Ye shall not do after all the things that we do here this day,
every man whatsoever is right in his own eyes”