1 Corinthians 5:6

Not good [is] your glorying; have ye not known that a little leaven the whole lump doth leaven?

Young's Literal Translation

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 up such a one to the Adversary for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

7cleanse out, therefore, the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, according as ye are unleavened, for also our passover for us was sacrificed — Christ,

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Cross References

Matthew 13:33Another simile spake he to them: 'The reign of the heavens is like to leaven, which a woman having taken, hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.'

Luke 13:21It is like leaven, which a woman, having taken, did hide in three measures of meal, till that all was leavened.'

1 Corinthians 4:18And as if I were not coming unto you certain were puffed up;

1 Corinthians 15:33Be not led astray; evil communications corrupt good manners;

2 Timothy 2:17and their word as a gangrene will have pasture, 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 →

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