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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BSBPD

“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)
KJVPD

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

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

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

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“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 Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo 1 Corinthians 5:6 — 10 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. 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.”
  2. Matthew 16:6“Watch out!” Jesus told them. “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”
  3. Luke 13:21It is like leaven that a woman took and mixed into three measures of flour, until all of it was leavened.”
  4. 1 Corinthians 3:21Therefore, stop boasting in men. All things are yours,
  5. 1 Corinthians 4:18Some of you have become arrogant, as if I were not coming to you.
  6. 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?
  7. 1 Corinthians 15:33Do not be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good character.”
  8. Galatians 5:9A little leaven works through the whole batch of dough.
  9. 2 Timothy 2:17and the talk of such men will spread like gangrene. Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus,
  10. James 4:16As it is, you boast in your proud intentions. All such boasting is evil.

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