1 Corinthians 5:6
It is no good thing--this which you make the ground of your boasting. Do you not know that a little yeast corrupts the whole of the dough?
Weymouth NT (1912)
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 spoke to them. "The Kingdom of the Heavens," He said, "is like yeast which a woman takes and buries in a bushel of flour, for it to work there till the whole mass has risen."
Luke 13:21It is like yeast which a woman takes and buries in a bushel of flour, to work there till the whole is leavened."
1 Corinthians 4:18But some of you have been puffed up through getting the idea that I am not coming to Corinth.
1 Corinthians 15:33Do not deceive yourselves: "Evil companionships corrupt good morals."
2 Timothy 2:17and their teaching will spread like a running sore. Hymenaeus and Philetus are men of that stamp.
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 →