Galatians 5:9 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

⁹ A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.

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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.

Galatians 5:9 Cross References

1 Corinthians 15:33

Be not deceived: Evil company doth corrupt good manners.

Mark 8:15

And he charged them, saying, Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod.

Luke 13:21

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

Luke 12:1

In the mean time, when the many thousands of the multitude were gathered together, insomuch that they trode one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

2 Timothy 2:17

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

Matthew 23:33

Ye serpents, ye offspring of vipers, how shall ye escape the judgement of hell?

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.