1 Corinthians 5:6

Your boasting [is] not good. Do ye not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?

In Context

5to deliver him, [I say,] [being] such, to Satan for destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

7Purge out the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, according as ye are unleavened. For also our passover, Christ, has been sacrificed;

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Cross References

Matthew 13:33He spoke another parable to them: The kingdom of the heavens is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal until it had been all leavened.

Luke 13:21It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal until the whole was leavened.

1 Corinthians 4:18But some have been puffed up, as if I were not coming to you;

1 Corinthians 15:33Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.

2 Timothy 2:17and their word will spread as a gangrene; of whom is 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 →

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