1 Corinthians 5:6
Your reioycing is not good: knowe ye not that a litle leauen, leaueneth ye whole lumpe?
Geneva Bible 1599
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 spake hee to them, The kingdome of heauen is like vnto leauen, which a woman taketh and hideth in three pecks of meale, till all be leauened.
Luke 13:21It is like leauen, which a woman tooke, and hid in three peckes of floure, till all was leauened.
1 Corinthians 4:18Some are puffed vp as though I woulde not come vnto you.
1 Corinthians 15:33Be not deceiued: euill speakings corrupt good maners.
2 Timothy 2:17And their worde shall fret as a canker: of which sort is Hymeneus 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 →