Galatians 5:9 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁹ A little yeast leavens the whole batch of dough.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ 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)

⁹ A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.

Common English Bible

⁹ A little yeast works through the whole lump of dough.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ A little leaven corrupts the whole mass.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁹ 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 yeast that a woman took and mixed in with three measures of flour until all of it was leavened.”

Matthew 23:33

You snakes, you brood of vipers! How can you escape the judgment of hell?

Mark 8:15

And he cautioned them, saying, “Watch out—beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and the yeast of Herod.”

Luke 12:1

Meanwhile, when the crowd had gathered by the thousands, so that they trampled on one another, he began to speak first to his disciples, “Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, that is, their hypocrisy.

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.”

1 Corinthians 15:33

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

2 Timothy 2:17

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