1 Corinthians 5:6
Good News Translation
It is not right for you to be proud! You know the saying, "A little bit of yeast makes the whole batch of dough rise."

New Revised Standard Version
Your boasting is not a good thing. Do you not know that a little yeast leavens the whole batch of dough?

Contemporary English Version
Stop being proud! Don't you know how a little yeast can spread through the whole batch of dough?

New American Bible
Your boasting is not appropriate. Do you not know that a little yeast leavens all the dough?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Your glorying is not good. Know you not that a little leaven corrupteth the whole lump?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Your glorying is not good. Know you not that a little leaven corrupteth the whole lump?

glorying.

1 Corinthians 5:2 And you are puffed up and have not rather mourned: that he might be taken away from among you that hath done this thing.

1 Corinthians 3:21 Let no man therefore glory in men.

1 Corinthians 4:18,19 As if I would not come to you, so some are puffed up. . . .

James 4:16 But now you rejoice in your arrogancies. All such rejoicing is wicked.

a little.

1 Corinthians 15:33 Be not seduced: Evil communications corrupt good manners.

Matthew 13:33 Another parable he spoke to them: The kingdom of heaven is like to leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, until the whole was leavened.

Matthew 16:6-12 Who said to them: Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees. . . .

Luke 13:21 It is like to leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.

Galatians 5:9 A little leaven corrupteth the whole lump.

2 Timothy 2:17 And their speech spreadeth like a canker: of whom are Hymeneus and Philetus:

Context
Immorality Rebuked
5To deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. 6Your glorying is not good. Know you not that a little leaven corrupteth the whole lump? 7Purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new paste, as you are unleavened. For Christ our pasch is sacrificed.…
Cross References
Hosea 7:4
They are all adulterers, like an oven heated by the baker: the city rested a little from the mingling of the leaven, till the whole was leavened.

Matthew 16:6
Who said to them: Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

Matthew 16:12
Then they understood that he said not that they should beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

Romans 6:16
Know you not that to whom you yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants you are whom you obey, whether it be of sin unto death or of obedience unto justice.

1 Corinthians 5:2
And you are puffed up and have not rather mourned: that he might be taken away from among you that hath done this thing.

Galatians 5:9
A little leaven corrupteth the whole lump.

James 4:16
But now you rejoice in your arrogancies. All such rejoicing is wicked.

1 Corinthians 5:5
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