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1 Corinthians 5:6

Your glorying is not good: know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole mass?

Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament

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 one over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

7Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new mass, as ye are unleavened. For our passover hath been sacrificed for us, even Christ.

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Cross References

Matthew 13:33Another parable spake he to them: The kingdom of heaven is like leaven, which a woman took and covered up in three measures of flour, until the whole was leavened.

Luke 13:21It is like leaven, which a woman taking, covered up in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.

1 Corinthians 4:18Now some are puffed up, as though I would not really come to you.

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

2 Timothy 2:17And their discourse will eat like as a gangrene; of whom are 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 →

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