1 Corinthians 5:6 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁶ Your boasting is not a good thing. Do you not know that a little yeast leavens all of the dough?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ [About the condition of your church] your boasting is not good [indeed, it is most unseemly and entirely out of place]. Do you not know that [just] a little leaven will ferment the whole lump [of dough]?

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?

Common English Bible

⁶ Your bragging isn’t good! Don’t you know that a tiny grain of yeast makes a whole batch of dough rise?

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ It is not good for you to glory. Do you not know that a little leaven corrupts the entire mass?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶ Your glorying is not good. Know you not that a little leaven corrupteth the whole lump?

1 Corinthians 5:6 Cross References

Hosea 7:4

They are all adulterers; they are like a heated oven whose baker does not need to stir the fire from the kneading of the dough until it is leavened.

Matthew 13:33

He told them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed in with three measures of flour until all of it was leavened.”

Luke 13:21

It is like yeast that a woman took and mixed in with three measures of flour until all of it was leavened.”

Romans 6:16

Do you not know that, if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?

1 Corinthians 15:33

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

1 Corinthians 3:21

So let no one boast about people. For all things are yours,

1 Corinthians 5:2

And you are arrogant! Should you not rather have mourned, so that he who has done this would have been removed from among you?

Galatians 5:9

A little yeast leavens the whole batch of dough.

2 Timothy 2:17

and their talk will spread like gangrene. Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus,

James 4:16

As it is, you boast in your arrogance; all such boasting is evil.