1 Corinthians 5:6
It is not good for you to glory. Do you not know that a little leaven corrupts the entire mass?
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
In Context
Cross References
Matthew 13:33He spoke another parable to them: “The kingdom of heaven is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of fine wheat flour, until it was entirely leavened.”
Luke 13:21It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of fine wheat flour, until it was entirely leavened.”
1 Corinthians 4:18Certain persons have become inflated in thinking that I would not return to you.
1 Corinthians 15:33Do not be led astray. Evil communication corrupts good morals.
2 Timothy 2:17And their word spreads like a cancer: among these are Hymenaeus and Philetus,
Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 5:2-7
A Case of Gross Criminality; Christian Purity. ( a. d. 57.) 1 It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife. 2 And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you. 3 For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed, 4 In the name of… Read the whole commentary →