Galatians 5:9
7 You were running so well. Who has obstructed you from obeying the truth?
8 Such persuasion does not come from the One who calls you.
A little leaven works through the whole batch of dough.
10 I am confident in the Lord that you will take no other view. The one who is troubling you will bear the judgment, whoever he may be.
11 Now, brothers, if I am still preaching circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that case the offense of the cross has been abolished.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- A little leaven works through the whole batch of dough.
- KJV
- A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.
- WEB
- A little yeast grows through the whole lump.
- ASV
- A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.
- DARBY
- A little leaven leavens the whole lump.
- BLB
- A little leaven leavens the whole lump.
- ÅB
- En liten surdeig syrer hele deigen.
- OTB
- En liten mengde gjær påvirker hele deigen.
- B1930
- En liten surdeig syrer hele deigen.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
1 Corinthians 15:33
Do not be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good character.”
Read in contextMark 8:15
“Watch out!” He cautioned them. “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of Herod.”
Read in context1 Corinthians 5:6–7
Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven works through the whole batch of dough?
Read in contextLuke 12:1
In the meantime, a crowd of many thousands had gathered, so that they were trampling one another. Jesus began to speak first to His disciples: “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
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 contextMatthew 16:6–12
“Watch out!” Jesus told them. “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”
Read in context2 Timothy 2:17
and the talk of such men will spread like gangrene. Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus,
Read in contextMatthew 23:33
You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape the sentence of hell?
Read in context