1 Corinthians 5:6
4 When you are assembled in the name of our Lord Jesus and I am with you in spirit, along with the power of the Lord Jesus,
5 hand this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved on the Day of the Lord.
Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven works through the whole batch of dough?
7 Get 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.
8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with the old bread, leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and of truth.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven works through the whole batch of dough?
- KJV
- Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
- WEB
- Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast leavens the whole lump?
- ASV
- Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
- DARBY
- Your boasting [is] not good. Do ye not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?
- BLB
- Your⁺ boasting [is] not good. Do you⁺ not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?
- ÅB
- Det er ikke smukt det som dere roser dere av. Vet dere ikke at en liten surdeig syrer hele deigen?
- OTB
- Deres skryt er ikke fordelaktig. Vet dere ikke at en liten surdeig påvirker hele deigen?
- B1930
- Det er ikke smukt det som I roser eder av. Vet I ikke at en liten surdeig syrer hele deigen?
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Galatians 5:9
A little leaven works through the whole batch of dough.
Read in context1 Corinthians 15:33
Do not be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good character.”
Read in contextJames 4:16
As it is, you boast in your proud intentions. All such boasting is evil.
Read in context1 Corinthians 5:2
And you are proud! Shouldn’t you rather have been stricken with grief and have removed from your fellowship the man who did this?
Read in contextLuke 13:21
It is like leaven that a woman took and mixed into three measures of flour, until all of it was leavened.”
Read in context1 Corinthians 4:18–19
Some of you have become arrogant, as if I were not coming to you.
Read in context1 Corinthians 3:21
Therefore, stop boasting in men. All things are yours,
Read in contextMatthew 13:33
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.”
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