1 Corinthians 5:6
MY brethren, your boasting is not seemly. Know you not that a little leaven the whole mass leaveneth?
The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge
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 13:33Another parable he spake to them: The kingdom of heaven resembles that leaven which a woman took and hid in three satas of meal, until the whole was leavened.
Luke 13:21It is like leaven which a woman took; (and) hid in three satas of meal, until all had leavened.
1 Corinthians 4:18But as if I were not coming to you, some of you are inflated.
1 Corinthians 15:33Mistake not; for Evil narrations corrupt well-disposed minds.
2 Timothy 2:17And their words as an eating cancer will lay hold upon many: but one of them is Hymeneos, and another Philetos,
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 →