1 Corinthians 5:6
Unseemly, is your boast! Know ye not that, a little leaven, doth leaven, the whole of the lump?
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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 he unto them]:—The kingdom of the heavens is like, unto leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of flour until, the whole, was leavened.
Luke 13:21It is, like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of flour, until, the whole, was leavened.
1 Corinthians 4:18But, as though I were not coming unto you, some are puffed up!
1 Corinthians 15:33Be not deceiving yourselves,—evil communications corrupt gentle manners:—
2 Timothy 2:17And, their discourse, as a gangrene, will eat its way;—of whom are 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 →