1 Corinthians 5:6

Your boasting is unseemly. Don’t you know that even a little yeast leavens all the dough?

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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 such a man as this over to Satan, that what is sensual in him may be destroyed, so that his spirit may be saved at the day of the Lord.

7Get rid entirely of the old leaven, so that you may be like new dough – free from leaven, as in truth you are. For our passover lamb is already sacrificed – Christ himself;

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Cross References

Matthew 13:33This was another parable which Jesus related – “The kingdom of heaven is like some yeast which a woman took and covered up in three pecks of flour, until the whole had risen.”

Luke 13:21It is like some yeast which a woman took and covered in three pecks of flour, until the whole had risen.”

1 Corinthians 4:18Some, I hear, are puffed up with pride, thinking that I am not coming to you.

1 Corinthians 15:33Do not be deceived. ‘Good character is marred by evil company.’

2 Timothy 2:17and their teaching will spread like a cancer. Hymenaeus and Philetus are instances of this.

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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