1 Corinthians 5:6 - Revised Standard Version CI

⁶ Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?

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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?

1 Corinthians 5:6 Cross References

Hosea 7:4

They are all adulterers; they are like a heated oven, whose baker ceases 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 leaven which a woman took and hid in three measures of flour, till it was all leavened.”

Luke 13:21

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

Romans 6:16

Do you not know that if you yield yourselves to any one 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 of men. For all things are yours,

1 Corinthians 5:2

And you are arrogant! Ought you not rather to mourn? Let him who has done this be removed from among you.

Galatians 5:9

A little leaven leavens the whole lump.

2 Timothy 2:17

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

James 4:16

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