Galatians 5:9 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

A little leaven leavens the whole lump.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

A little leaven (a slight inclination to error, or a few false teachers) leavens the whole lump [it perverts the whole conception of faith or misleads the whole church].

American Standard Version (1901)

A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.

Common English Bible

A little yeast works through the whole lump of dough.

Catholic Public Domain Version

A little leaven corrupts the whole mass.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

A little leaven corrupteth the whole lump.

Galatians 5:9 Cross References

Matthew 13:33

He told them another parable. “The kingdom of heaven is like leaven which a woman took and hid in three measures of flour, till it was all leavened.”

Matthew 23:33

You serpents, you brood of vipers, how are you to escape being sentenced to hell?

Mark 8:15

And he cautioned them, saying, “Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod.”

Luke 12:1

In the meantime, when so many thousands of the multitude had gathered together that they trod upon one another, he began to say to his disciples first, “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

Luke 13:21

It is like leaven which a woman took and hid in three measures of flour, till it was all leavened.”

1 Corinthians 15:33

Do not be deceived: “Bad company ruins good morals.”

2 Timothy 2:17

and their talk will eat its way like gangrene. Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus,