1 Corinthians 5:6

New American Bible - revised edition

Your boasting is not appropriate. Do you not know that a little yeast leavens all the dough?

Cross References

Hosea 7:4

They are all adulterers, like a blazing oven, Which the baker quits stoking, after the dough’s kneading until its rising.

Matthew 13:33

He spoke to them another parable. “The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed with three measures of wheat flour until the whole batch was leavened.” The Use of Parables.

Luke 13:21

It is like yeast that a woman took and mixed [in] with three measures of wheat flour until the whole batch of dough was leavened.” The Narrow Door; Salvation and Rejection.

Romans 6:16

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

1 Corinthians 15:33

Do not be led astray: “Bad company corrupts good morals.”

1 Corinthians 3:21

So let no one boast about human beings, for everything belongs to you,

1 Corinthians 5:2

And you are inflated with pride. Should you not rather have been sorrowful? The one who did this deed should be expelled from your midst.

Galatians 5:9

A little yeast leavens the whole batch of dough.

2 Timothy 2:17

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

James 4:16

But now you are boasting in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.