1 Corinthians 5:6 “Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven works…”

1 Corinthians 5:6

Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven works through the whole batch of dough?

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?

World English Bible

Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast leavens the whole lump?

American Standard Version

Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?

Geneva Bible 1599

Your reioycing is not good: knowe ye not that a litle leauen, leaueneth ye whole lumpe?

Darby Translation

Your boasting [is] not good. Do ye not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?

Young's Literal Translation

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

Bible in Basic English

This pride of yours is not good. Do you not see that a little leaven makes a change in all the mass?

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Cross references

“glorying”

James 4:16 1 Corinthians 5:2 1 Corinthians 3:21 1 Corinthians 4:18 1 Corinthians 4:19

James 4:16 · BSB

As it is, you boast in your proud intentions. All such boasting is evil.

1 Corinthians 5:2 · BSB

And you are proud! Shouldn’t you rather have been stricken with grief and have removed from your fellowship the man who did this?

1 Corinthians 3:21 · BSB

Therefore, stop boasting in men. All things are yours,

1 Corinthians 4:18 · BSB

Some of you have become arrogant, as if I were not coming to you.

1 Corinthians 4:19 · BSB

But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord is willing, and then I will find out not only what these arrogant people are saying, but what power they have.

“a little”

Galatians 5:9 1 Corinthians 15:33 Luke 13:21 Matthew 13:33 2 Timothy 2:17 Matthew 16:6–12

Galatians 5:9 · BSB

A little leaven works through the whole batch of dough.

1 Corinthians 15:33 · BSB

Do not be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good character.”

Luke 13:21 · BSB

It is like leaven that a woman took and mixed into three measures of flour, until all of it was leavened.”

Matthew 13:33 · BSB

He told them still another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like leaven that a woman took and mixed into three measures of flour, until all of it was leavened.”

2 Timothy 2:17 · BSB

and the talk of such men will spread like gangrene. Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus,

Matthew 16:6–12 · BSB

“Watch out!” Jesus told them. “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

5hand this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved on the Day of the Lord.

7Get rid of the old leaven, that you may be a new unleavened batch, as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.

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