1 Corinthians 5:6
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven works through the whole batch of dough?”
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“Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven works through the whole batch of dough?”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?”
King James Version · Public Domain“Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Not good <FI>is<Fi> your glorying; have ye not known that a little leaven the whole lump doth leaven?”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo 1 Corinthians 5:6 — 10 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Matthew 13:33He 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.”
- Matthew 16:6“Watch out!” Jesus told them. “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”
- Luke 13:21It is like leaven that a woman took and mixed into three measures of flour, until all of it was leavened.”
- 1 Corinthians 3:21Therefore, stop boasting in men. All things are yours,
- 1 Corinthians 4:18Some of you have become arrogant, as if I were not coming to you.
- 1 Corinthians 5:2And 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 15:33Do not be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good character.”
- Galatians 5:9A little leaven works through the whole batch of dough.
- 2 Timothy 2:17and the talk of such men will spread like gangrene. Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus,
- James 4:16As it is, you boast in your proud intentions. All such boasting is evil.
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