1 Corinthians 5:6
Your glorying is not good. Know all of you not that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?
Updated King James Version
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 spoke he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.
Luke 13:21It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.
1 Corinthians 4:18Now some are puffed up, as though I would not come to you.
1 Corinthians 15:33Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
2 Timothy 2:17And their word (o. logos) will eat as does a canker: of whom is 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 →