1 Corinthians 5:6 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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 as an oven heated by the baker; he ceaseth to stir the fire, from the kneading of the dough until it be leavened.

Matthew 13:33

Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till it was all leavened.

Luke 13:21

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

Romans 6:16

Know ye not, that to whom ye present yourselves as servants unto obedience, his servants ye are whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

1 Corinthians 15:33

Be not deceived: Evil company doth corrupt good manners.

1 Corinthians 3:21

Wherefore let no one glory in men. For all things are yours;

1 Corinthians 5:2

And ye are puffed up, and did not rather mourn, that he that had done this deed might be taken away from among you.

Galatians 5:9

A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.

2 Timothy 2:17

and their word will eat as doth a gangrene: of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus;

James 4:16

But now ye glory in your vauntings: all such glorying is evil.